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soup wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:


Strange that considering I was told by someone on here yesyerday that it was run by a charity/charities


Mountain rescue teams, lifeboats etc are run by charities but this
is for the military run SAR you know sea kings/nimrods etc, whose
primary role was retrieval of downed military pilots, civilian SAR was
a (very important) sideshoot to this role.



ASIDE:-
Are the coastgaurd considered as governmental or are they a charity
run thing?


in the appropriate area you contact the by ringing 999 (or 112). No they
aren't a charity. In the USA they are one of the 4 Armed Services.

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