diff --git a/templates/caffe/squeezenet/deploy.prototxt b/templates/caffe/squeezenet/deploy.prototxt
index 98bae35ca..8e64f0a1f 100644
--- a/templates/caffe/squeezenet/deploy.prototxt
+++ b/templates/caffe/squeezenet/deploy.prototxt
@@ -509,15 +509,6 @@ layer {
   bottom: "fire9/expand3x3"
   top: "fire9/concat"
 }
-layer {
-  name: "drop9"
-  type: "Dropout"
-  bottom: "fire9/concat"
-  top: "fire9/concat"
-  dropout_param {
-    dropout_ratio: 0.5
-  }
-}
 layer {
   name: "conv10"
   type: "Convolution"