Are you all the same as you were 20 years ago? No, neither is SARTU.
Thank god.
It is celebrating a significant milestone, and is justified in doing so, regardless of the petty bitterness shown by some here.
Really?
To extend your analogy: Is Germany the same as it was 70 years ago? No. It no longer carries out widespread genocide. but this is scarcely a good reason to celebrate. Your "petty bitterness" is someone else's career ending chop decision.
Every RAF SAR pilot/crewman went through SARTU, and we have a superb SAR force - so they did something right.
Entirely non-sequitur. Going back to my own example above, Germany now has an (arguably) decent manufacturing base. This justifies the holocaust? No, of course it doesn't. Why then do you think that the quality of people current undertaking SAR duties justifies the entirely unacceptable behaviour that SARTU permitted in the past?
There were many 'face doesn't fit' staff (mostly rearcrew) - all have gone. Some are dead. Happy?
Errrr. No. Are those who are not dead facing charges for bullying/harassment/constructive dismissal?
As for now - think you'll find they do change very well - look at what they're doing now - multicultural and loads of different courses.
OMG! They speak to black folks now? How amazing!!!!
Bitterness is painful and wasteful. It hurts all sides. What happened is done, look foward. SARTU is.
Yeah, lets bury the past rather than learn from our mistakes. In any event the contractors look set to take over and remove the issue from those who failed to manage it at all.