Our SAR cabs are Sea Kings and the only ones we have left in the Fleet apart from SAR are painted green or have a bag on the side. To constantly send pilots from those 2 frame types after one tour (where they have just learned how to fly a Sea King) to fly the SAR will deplete the baggers and junglies of their mid management expertise. We have no OCU for SAR and the RAF do, so why not use them instead of reinventing the wheel? Isn't that what jointery is for? It may also be easier to train people in a different role after they have already flown the SK for a couple of years.
Junglie Chinook? Now there's a thing....... we will get them the same time that the X Wings are procured.