Torque,
a recent SAR Force Cdr recognized that this was wrong, and did much to address this
er, I don't think so. The cross-pol started following the first study into UK SAR (predecessor to SARH) which showed that there was no operational justification for the yellow SARF. The "..if we don't get some cross-pol going (as the RN has always done) we will lose any position in future SAR...sort it!" happened. The SARF tried to break into MCT and all sorts of other activity in order to justify itself.
Re MR teams....if they are needed for post crash work why not make this a RAF Regt task?