The thing they miss is a valuable point.
They probably look on it as it takes a year plus to train an Engineer, so assume they can replace them in a year with a new Engineer if needed, however they have lost the core experience that only comes with time, and that leaves a big hole in the middle of your engineering capability.
That is different to natural wastage as you are in effect cutting out the central core of Engineers and they can only be replaced with time, and of course that time period relies on fresh intakes of Engineers building their knowledge base which would normally be provided by those that are no longer there, so you then also suffer from a lack of continuity as well.
Last edited by NutLoose; 6th Aug 2013 at 19:50.