User blog comment:Argonash11/Concerns for ME3.../@comment-83.233.155.199-20110318174349

In a sense, they have to demote the ME2 squad, given that none of them necessarily survived the events of ME2 (as opposed to ME1's situation, where three of the squad-members would survive the events of the game regardless of what you did, meaning they didn't need to make an alternative squad-member if Garrus or Tali had died).