Here we go again?
Crab,
I have re-read Owl's post and see nothing that implies no training at Portland. (by implication, neither Portland or Stornaway can train regularly on a limsar A/C as they don't have one on site).
I agree with you that 'little diminution of service' might be overstating the case a bit, because otherwise there would be little point in fully equipped A/C.
However, if, as I suspect, this is an opening salvo in another round of MilSAR is better than CivSAR, oh no it's not, oh yes it is, could you save us all a lot of time and just cut-and-paste from one of the previous threads. Thanks.