Bismark, ref the recruiting plug, I thought back in the late 80s that the tap appeared to be too open.
The nav school annual output was around 100. The nav school staff strength was around 90. Many of the staff would have given their eye teeth to get back on a squadron (one did and he was 50 - it was conditional that he didn't 'waste' money on an OCU and got up to speed back on his sqn).
Was our training pipeline over bloated with too many in Training Command and OCUs with a consequent churn of experience out of the sqns?