There can be little doubt we had some dead wood! However, when we went civvy, the sqn lost 24 Op capability - if we wanted to train at night, we couldn't train in the day. The Sqn club (the scorpy) shut (the GC's ran it). Sqn happy hours ceased. The secondary duties for the aircrew quadrupled. The Sqn could no longer self-deploy overseas.
As I said - the Sqn died.