Crab, whilst your understanding of the whole SAR-H process is at best questionable and your obvious bias towards the 'military' way of thinking is blinding, may I suggest that you take the time to realise that things will change.
What will happen in 2012 will be anyones guess but I can guarantee that everyone who contributes or reads this forum who is a SAR professional like yourself, will know that when the time comes we will do our jobs and we will do them damn well, and that the UK will continue to have the finest SAR service in the world and we will all play our respectives roles.