SAR time for a big re think?
Having worked with the UK armed forces over the years I have always been very favorably impressed by the professional attitude of all that I have met, what always seemed to be holding these guys back was the people at the blunt end.
Shed loads of petty rules that seemed to do nothing except cover the 6 of some civil servant are it seems the order of the day and very little attention paid to enableing the guys at the front end to get the job required done and even less attention paid to making the job less of a problem.
Perhaps we should see this as a chance to scrap the top heavy management and let the guys do the job with a management who want to fly and not to push paper.
I'm sure that most of the crews of civilian SAR will be ex-military and so if properly funded I don't see a drop in the presant (outstanding) standards of SAR service.