TOD:-
Air ambulance is a significantly different kettle of fish to SAR.
I wondered who'd be first to spot that one. Well done, Wilson! Duly amended, thanks. Getting confused with his previous job. I wonder if he ever does?
GE:-
Seems like an awful lot of sour grapes on this subject.
I forgot, we don't do ironic any more, do we? Smiley inserted just for you as it was not serious, you understand. You don't? Well I'm banged to rights and no mistake. Yep, sour grapes for sure (sorry, yet more irony).
PS:-
As an aside, could this jump up by one rank only to become a senior officer (just) be in order to claim the privileges of that new status? As a retd JO, officially he could no longer term himself Flight Lieutenant if he so wished. Now that he is a substantive Squadron Leader he is entitled to call himself just that hereafter. Just a thought...