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And this brings me to my main point. If the main priority for air support is saving life - and it should be - why not close the urban bases and keep the rural ones open.
I will bet my bottom dollar that the likes of Rhuddlan, Ripley, Warton, Wattisham and Husbands Bosworth have located more vunerable missing persons, (and by that I mean suicidal, elderly, children), and saved their lives than the MET ever will do with their 3 aircraft.
Finding missing persons isn't the only way of saving lives in this job. I guess we will never know how many lives units such as the Met have saved, and will continue to save while carrying out their 'duties'.