TM, blame culture was rampant in the 70s so nothing new there. Sqn Cdrs were fired left (and maybe right and centre) if one of their blokes screwed up. BoI would go through a sqn with a finer tooth comb than a pre-AOCs uncovering any evidence of slackness or whatever which resulted in the dismissal of the sqn cdr and sometimes stn cdr too. That was why people like the B-word and J-P at Lossie were such . . . . . . . s as they feared for their careers.
You can imagine the culture to which that led.