T-S, go and shoot your other foot,ffs....You claim to be in the TA/was,but you seem to have zero nouse about SAR-OPS,whether they are civilian or military.Not only that they can be used in combat ops if necessary.
I`ll leave it to Tallsar/Crab/Navy to elaborate the finer points of all-weather SAR..In a nutshell,it`s crew co-operation at it`s best,and needs to be ,given all the possible scenarios that crews can be called upon,and that applies whether you are light blue,dark blue or coastguard...