The cull certainly did me a favour, Nutty. A wodge of money in the bank, a pension at 37 and a 20 year career in IT, from which I retired with another pension and money in the bank!
I can understand why the cull was necessary, on my Britannia shift at BZN in the AFE trade there were 3 C/techs, 4 Sgts, a corporal or two, 1J/T couple of SAC's..Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians was never truer.
It seems manpower planners never get it right.