The Italian Job
also not forgetting another of our NATO brethren: Italy
They have had HH-3F Pelican, AB212 now with the near CEASAR HH-101 and HH-139 and now been certified, the AW149
Around '99, the AMI held a CSAR / PRV exercise which involved HH-3F, their spec ops, AB212 as gunship support, Tornado IDS for the 'Sandy' role and AMX....plus AW-129 Mangusta for even more firepower.
Getting back to the French, around 7 years ago they did a CSAR exercise with the ALAT (saw it copy of the Swiss Helico magazine) - involved using one of the Gazelles and crews picking up the downed pilot.
Cannot remember off hand if we have conducted en mass a dedicated CSAR/PRV exercise....unless you count when I was a Air Cadet - post Gulf War, we tried an E and E exercise out on camp in Stanta and simulated rescue including a couple of empty (Cider) bottles to simultae the black box / recoverable flight data and had to run around avoid the CO and other senior cadets to pick them up AND then get rescue by our other mates!
Cheers