Chapter 5 - Military Search and Rescue
                                     
Table 5.1 Military Search and Rescue incidents, callouts and people moved: 1998 - 2008
Incidents are emergencies attended by Royal Navy or Royal Air Force units whose primary task is Search and Rescue, plus other military aircraft and ships that are available to Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centres.

Each Search and Rescue unit attending an incident is described as a callout. An incident may result in one or more callouts. An example is two callouts to a mountain incident, with a helicopter and a Mountain Rescue Team working together to assist a casualty. Callouts are for Royal Navy and RAF units whose primary task is Search and Rescue, plus other military aircraft and ships that attended incidents because they were available to Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centres.

People moved involves moving people from a hostile environment to a safe environment or to a medical facility to receive urgent medical attention and between medical facilities at the request of the NHS.

UK SAR units are co-ordinated by the Aeronautical Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Kinloss (Scotland). Aldergrove (N. Ireland) closed in 2002. The overseas SAR units are based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands.
 
Incidents
  
Callouts
  
People moved
                                     
  All   UK   Overseas   All   UK   Overseas   All   UK   Overseas  
1998 1 776   1 697   79   1 980   1 898   82   1 309   1 243   66  
1999 1 787   1 714   73   1 988   1 912   76   1 269   1 204   65  
2000 1 827   1 781   46   1 990   1 941   49   1 356   1 316   40  
2001 1 645   1 608   37   1 800   1 763   37   1 207   1 182   25  
2002 1 577   1 544   33   1 718   1 684   34   1 251   1 224   27  
2003 1 677   1 600   77   1 809   1 714   95   1 333   1 273   60  
2004 1 564   1 504   60   1 711   1 638   73   1 449   1 412   37  
2005 1 641   1 584   57   1 766   1 702   64   1 431   1 384   47  
2006 1 767   1 703   64   1 948   1 875   73   1 538   1 463   75  
2007 1 877   1 803   74   2 065   1 973   92   1 817   1 767   50  
2008 2 025   1 941   84   2 179   2 083   96   1 763   1 607   156 1
Source: DASA(Equipment & Personnel Analysis)
1.  This figure includes two incidents:
     The transfer of 79 military personnel in the Falklands during March.
     The rescue of 15 military personnel in the Falklands during February.


Military Search and Rescue incidents, callouts & people moved

Military Search and Rescue incidents, callouts & people moved