It would be interesting to see how a certain individual who was at the forefront of pushing the UKSAR model, and had visions of selling it to other nations, views his business plan now...........
In what way? As the total success it appears to be? Delivering the service, arguably better, on budget, despite OEM delays. Or are you suggesting he is in some way responsible for different business unit decisions that occur in Huston? That would be a like suggesting the SARF was actually a failure because of (for example) the total mismanagement of procurement in MOD.
As Jim says, people will keep getting rescued by the service. Nothing changes from military to civi SAR. Troops keep doing the job and continue to be baffled by either 2/3 star officers or SMT decisions. 😬