Ah yes J,
But having recruited all the officers we now find ourselves desperatly short of young SNCO's and are striving to redress the balance.
I have had the pleasure of flying with some SAR guys and gals and was astounded at the lack of ability in anything other than an A to B scenario, tactics was beyond them, is this a factor in the apparent once a SAR boy always a SAR boy mentality?
There are good and bad operators on all sides of the fence and to characterise this as rank related is folly, all undergo the same selection process and I know of many young AAC Cpls who achieved the score to go fast jet but didn't want to.
You are correct that those in the AAC now have raised their game and I have to say that the system has also. It is the case that you no longer have visibility of this however.