The Air Rescue IS an emergency service!
'Have faith in yourself a little more' is what Tim has just told me.
Apparently Air Rescue exists, and it is an emergency service. It is called Search and Rescue force, and is not part of the RNLI or the coastguard, but they are yellow and operated by the RAF!! Usually they go and find sailors lost at sea, and in that respect they collaborate with the coastguard and RNLI, but they are a separate entity.
According to Tim, who, by the way, I am eternally grateful to for supplying me with this information and making me feel clever again; they also have big planes, but mostly fly helicopters. Hmmm trust a geek (sorry Tim, but your words not mine) who works a LOT with the RAF to know such things, but whom without I would still be ridiculed. Tim, next time you come to visit me drinks are on me!
By the way Wikipedia (which I realised for the first time the other day is Wikipedia and not WiLkipedia - I think I must have just misread it a lot) also has something to say on the subject: but I don't totally trust it as it also lists park rangers as being part of the emergency service which are described as a 'public service' ...true park rangers are public services, but hardly an emergency public service I would have thought!
Anyway, I was right, Mike was wrong, that's all that needs to be said (with a lot of tongue sticking out and 'nah nah nah nah nah, I was right' being chanted.
Apparently Air Rescue exists, and it is an emergency service. It is called Search and Rescue force, and is not part of the RNLI or the coastguard, but they are yellow and operated by the RAF!! Usually they go and find sailors lost at sea, and in that respect they collaborate with the coastguard and RNLI, but they are a separate entity.
According to Tim, who, by the way, I am eternally grateful to for supplying me with this information and making me feel clever again; they also have big planes, but mostly fly helicopters. Hmmm trust a geek (sorry Tim, but your words not mine) who works a LOT with the RAF to know such things, but whom without I would still be ridiculed. Tim, next time you come to visit me drinks are on me!
By the way Wikipedia (which I realised for the first time the other day is Wikipedia and not WiLkipedia - I think I must have just misread it a lot) also has something to say on the subject: but I don't totally trust it as it also lists park rangers as being part of the emergency service which are described as a 'public service' ...true park rangers are public services, but hardly an emergency public service I would have thought!
Anyway, I was right, Mike was wrong, that's all that needs to be said (with a lot of tongue sticking out and 'nah nah nah nah nah, I was right' being chanted.
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