I'm sure everybody on Pprune will join me in congratulating the RAF SAR boys and girls on their magnificent response to the flooding yesterday. I was glued to the Sky News coverage watching those
yellow helicopter crews doing their thing. If the residents of Sheffield and others rescued by the RAF yesterday were made aware of SAR-H what, as tax payers, do you think their opinions would be? I was unashamedly pro-military SAR before the recent floods and I do not see anything that makes me want to change that view.
Does anybody know the final tally of numbers rescued and does this represent the largest helicopter evacuation ever undertaken on the mainland UK?
To return to a previous post, I have not had an encouraging response from my MP or MEP. Probably to be expected as they are both Labour.
Yesterday's events underline the value and professionalism of the service that the government is, unnecessarily, putting at risk.
Well done again the RAF.