marktigger wrote:Smokey wrote:Personnel recovery HC4
Navy/RM has always been the logical service for this
JPR is more than a helicopter with some booties in the boot. The responsibility is a Joint Force one, so will be dependant on the mission. Trained JPR specific personnel is often the issue, as when you need to stand up Mission Commanders, On Scene Commanders, Rescue Mission Commander etc (I'm sure there are a few extra Commanders thrown in for good measure...) the qualification and training burden can get quite high. Great that it is getting looked at again.
I know the E3 crews trained a lot to command JPR/CSAR in the 90s, although I imagine that experience has gone now.
As an aside it is called PR in NATO, leading to a UK Media Comms Officer to find himself quickly out of his depth when I was last in a HQ. Is there a PR Officer anywhere?.......