Please be assured no insult of the kind was intended. I too was one of those military SAR guys a million moons ago. It's not the guys at the sharp end I'm getting at, its the MoD bunch.
Think about it for a minute. There you are part of the military machine and your colleagues overseas are crying out for the precious resources you hold captive in home waters. Shouldn't they be deployed where they are most needed? A civvy S92/AW139 cannot do what you guys do in an operational environment but they CAN do what you do here. So why aren't you out there in the front line? We are desperate for helicopters in Afghanistan and you guys can surely lend a hand. Isn't that what you are trained for?
If I have it all wrong please tell me and please let's keep emotional arguments out of it and focus on the arguments about practicalities. I'm willing to listen but from where I stand the facts seem to speak for themselves.
Rgds
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