Comments by "Retrosicotte" (@Retrosicotte) on "US firm to run SAR helicopter service 26.03.13" video.

  1. Do you seriously think this will be cheaper? Do you seriously think this will be a better solution than decades of extremely dedicated and trained personnel who do this for more than just a paycheck and have vastly more knowledge and resources they can call upon in a pinch? This new company will ne no-where near as effective nor as cheap given while the MoD ran it for -quality- this corporation will want to run it for -profit-. This will not end well at all.
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  2. All too right. Those lads who risked life and limb to save people were doing it out of courage, loyalty and honour as part of a military that held greater standards. Now they want it to just be a contracted foreign group only after a paycheck after each shift? Disgraceful.
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  3. So instead of simply spending more on defence to keep a military quality SAR capability that gives the armed forces more emergency skills and helicopters...they're making it a more expensive civilian privatisation that won't be linked to the military? Good job Cameron, hope your old school pals are making money off you screwing the country even more by spending more to get less and ruining the military all the way.
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