Torcher - Heaven forbid that we should fall into the trap of imagining that any government run organisation can be cost effective - name me one that is !!!
Maybe we should give the RNLI the job? Good God - that would mean we could have an Integrated Rescue Service - no more turf wars ........... yeah, in my dreams.
Leave rescuing to the rescuers and let the military do their own stuff with their own expensive bullet-proof toys. RNLI-AIR could pick up downed jet-jockeys around our shores as well as anyone could.
From what Gordon Brown's lot are saying the light blue helicopters are going be needed for military duties in Afghanistan for the next 10 to 20 years.
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