Hello guys,
I have followed this thread for sometime from the sidelines and have been interested in the complete lack of unity amongst my fellow SAR friends.
We are all here to do a job. When I request that you scramble to an incident I don't care whether you are yellow,black and yellow, grey and red or red and white. All I want to know is that when I reassure my casualty on the end of the radio or telephone that help is on the way it will arrive in a timely fashion and the 4 crew onboard will be professional and will do the job they are sent to do.
It does not matter whether you are military or not your previous experience is not relevant to me, I don't care whether you have been on detatchment overseas or flying shuttle runs to oil platforms. What I wan't when I scramble you is a capable SAR crew to do the job I ask you to do.
There is no point in bickering about training etc....we know how much training goes on at both Civvy and Mil SAR flights and Crab you are the one talking nonsense.
At the end of the day SAR-H will provide the BEST most PROFESSIONAL SAR force for the UK. If anyone on this thread doesn't agree with that idea then perhaps it's time to move onto other things.