Have all their careers come to an end?
yes, that is what
seeing out their time?
usually means.
Why were they recruited in the first place?
They weren't, well not as helicopter Navs that is.
Twas jobs for the boys when they had nowhere else to go.
Cheap and available when pilots were scarce and expensive
and you can't just keep hiring and firing, this isn't some cheap fly by night charter operation. Redundancy takes 3 years.
however
Prefered 2 crew ops and an empty left hand seat myself.
but this does make it difficult to turn left.
Got it? Does that cover what you need to know?