DtD - see my post re: circa £50 million per annum - that wasn't a figure just plucked from the air but stated by a senior officer who should know.
How can we ever hope to give value for money when we don't aim to make a profit out of doing our job?
Enough MCA guys have agreed that they would love to have more training hours - we get them so shouldn't that mean we are better trained? And just to clarify, I don't mean better professionally at SAR but better trained over a wider range of disciplines.
I certainly haven't said or implied that we are better trained than the RN crews - I do know that the exchange winchmen and pilots we get at Chivenor are impressed with how the RAF do SAR.
Now which bit of this post will get quoted, misinterpreted and maligned?