Why This Is The RAF's Last Search & Rescue Squadron

Why This Is The RAF's Last Search & Rescue Squadron | Forces TV

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We look at the long history of the RAF's last search & rescue squadron, based in Cyprus.
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@dickiemcvitie1752 6 жыл бұрын

My granddad was 84 Sqn aircrew (navigator) during WW2 on Mosquitos. I have his flying log and other memorabilia of his service. He always wanted to fly in a helicopter, but sadly the only time he did was when he suffered a heart attack on a Cumbrian fell side and was medivacked by 202 Sqn from RAF Boulmer in 1991.

@victorwaddell6530 6 жыл бұрын

tricky dicky I salute your grandpa . Mosquitoes were splendid aircraft flown by great men . US Navy vet here .

@andrewlavey6992 3 жыл бұрын

Spent a few weeks on 84 Sqn to cover someone who was medivac'd. It was the Whirlwind when I was there. Good memories, especially at the Hovercraft and Canoe Club.

@deedee4531 6 жыл бұрын

good job guy's good to see that we the British are still out there and doing are bit in the world . massive thumbs up

@deedee4531 6 жыл бұрын

@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 3 жыл бұрын

@andrewlavey6992 6 жыл бұрын

Got dragged back off leave when I was on 22 Sqn C Flt at Valley to cover a MEDIVAC colleague for some 12 weeks. Good memories; great times.

@tedrobinson5743 6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU For Your Service! from a yank

@brianmees6055 6 жыл бұрын

I am ex 84 squadron, (fixed wing Middle East), not quite the same historical past in WWII as relayed in squadron history when serving.

@andrewlavey6992 4 жыл бұрын

Had a quick detachment out there when I had to replace a medevac'd guy. Rather sunny with Whirlwinds, as I recall.

@cypruspolitician145 6 жыл бұрын

Cyprus is where I'm from also hope they had a great career

@socratease1432 5 жыл бұрын

Good stuff.

@norriemasson4080 6 жыл бұрын

Still struggle to see why the Govt/MOD stood the SAR Sqdns operating out of RNAS Prestwick in Scotland and RAF Lossiemouth they did a great job and the shouts they went on can only have enhanced the training they already had.

@LamentedSun 4 жыл бұрын

Money

@derb009gaming 6 жыл бұрын

proud to have had family serve in RAF SAR.

@JoeyIndolos 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting history, and current service as well. I watched from beginning to end, but I seemed to have missed the part that I was expecting from the title. They mention time and again that the 84 is the last SAR squadron in the RAF, but is there any part where they actually explain why?

@paulebroderick 4 жыл бұрын

Search and Rescue in the UK was made a civilian role and given to private companies a few years ago (Prince William left the military when it was privatised, but had been based at RAF Valley in Wales in a SaR function).

@MrEvansj1 6 жыл бұрын

Good job.

@leighbnp 6 жыл бұрын

Good old squadron very active in ww1.

@jamesvincent1567 6 жыл бұрын

7./JG26_Daz I don't get how they're 100 years if the raf is 99 (5th Feb 1918)

@paulebroderick 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesvincent1567 Royal Flying Corps was a part of the Army, RAF was formed after military flying started

@awmperry 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting to see an RAF squadron operating Hueys.

@Thomas_TdK 6 жыл бұрын

awmperry they are clearly not hueys. This is a modern helicopter based on the huey

@awmperry 6 жыл бұрын

As you say, "Huey-derived airframe" would be strictly speaking more accurate, but that's a bit wordy for a KZfaq comment... It's still a Huey, even if it's not an Iroquois.

@willastle9623 6 жыл бұрын

Looks to be a UH-1Y or an obscure version of a Bell-412. EDIT: Watched the video through and they are some version of a 412

@jameson1239 4 жыл бұрын

It’s the same thing the Canadian army uses as there medium helicopter a derivative of the bell model 412 that in Canadian army use is called the CH-146 griffon I don’t know what it’s called in Britain

@jameson1239 4 жыл бұрын

Will Astle it’s a CH-146 I think

@user-kp1ei7mn3x 3 жыл бұрын

Super cool patch.

@kurtsteiner8384 8 ай бұрын

So who does sar outside of 84 squadron these days is it the RN and Army. Or is it civvy now. Does the RAF still operate it squadron of SAR rescue boats, or wher e they disbanded too.

@Mugofbrown 4 жыл бұрын

"Inflatable stretcher"? Surely a vac mat? Thanks 84 Sqn for all that you do.

@victorwaddell6530 6 жыл бұрын

At 12:33 The sergeant has an empty knife sheath strapped to his right thigh . The sheath looks like that of a US Air Force pilot's survival knife . Maybe it was a similar looking sheath made in Britain ?

@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 3 жыл бұрын

Why the question mark?

@victorwaddell6530 3 жыл бұрын

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq Because my last sentence was in the form of a question . And in the English language questions are followed by question marks . My question still stands for anyone that can answer it . I'm a US Navy veteran who has seen and owned many types of knives , both military issue and off the shelf , used in service .

@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 3 жыл бұрын

@@victorwaddell6530 Syntax is as important as punctuation for denotation of interrogation. If you are not convinced, consider the syntax that is required for the aforementioned during verbal communication.

@victorwaddell6530 3 жыл бұрын

@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq I reckon you don't have face to face conversations with human beings very often .

@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq 3 жыл бұрын

@@victorwaddell6530 Why?