As we all know there a far more senior officers at wing commander upwards than wings or squadron. Within the Med Branch and PMRAFNS, numerous wing commanders upwards, consultant surgeons anaesthetists etc are at least wing commander level and above add in Matrons as they used to be add in MiC/DNS and his staff. So the figure is misleading to say the lease, have not even mentioned engineering fighter control Regiment and admin and you have not exactly a cast of thousand but a few hundred.