vecvecetc - as I said, anyone can hover over the water on a nice day but rescuing a lad from a lilo doesn't make you a SAR pilot. A 2 day course will not prepare you for night decks/ night mountains/IMC ops over the water etc etc.
What will happen is that the mil SAR will be replaced by civvy SAR who will have a very tightly controlled contract and look really good on paper. They won't have the hours to do the training (except bare minimum IF) and will probably be very creative with their serviceability stats eg it says serviceable on the ops screen right up until you want to launch it and then it mysteriously wont start (often cos it's got no engines or gearbox in). Cheaper is not better, it's just cheaper.