Post by floydragsdale on Apr 16, 2012 10:42:02 GMT -5
An Army officer (Col. Or higher in rank) informed me that the turn over of infantry Soldiers on the front lines was relatively high compared other units in the Army.
He went on to say that they (Center of operations) figure that there is a division of soldiers up front, one going to the hospital, one in the hospital, one returning to their division from the hospital and one in the grave.
The very thought of his statement jolted my imagination. Yet, after the war, I discovered, from reading statistics, that an infantry soldier, on the front lines, had a 90-95% chance of being wounded, taken prisoner of war, killed in action, or going to the hospital with a disease of some sort.
All that doesn’t sound reasonable until I think of the full company strength of an Infantry Company, ca 200 men, that the 106th Division had when we relieved the 2nd Division on the front lines. Yet, when the War was over, ca six months later, there was only a small fraction of the Soldiers left out of the original 200 men.
Many Soldiers in our Commpany quallified for at least one of those stastics; I met the criteria for two of them.
Floyd
He went on to say that they (Center of operations) figure that there is a division of soldiers up front, one going to the hospital, one in the hospital, one returning to their division from the hospital and one in the grave.
The very thought of his statement jolted my imagination. Yet, after the war, I discovered, from reading statistics, that an infantry soldier, on the front lines, had a 90-95% chance of being wounded, taken prisoner of war, killed in action, or going to the hospital with a disease of some sort.
All that doesn’t sound reasonable until I think of the full company strength of an Infantry Company, ca 200 men, that the 106th Division had when we relieved the 2nd Division on the front lines. Yet, when the War was over, ca six months later, there was only a small fraction of the Soldiers left out of the original 200 men.
Many Soldiers in our Commpany quallified for at least one of those stastics; I met the criteria for two of them.
Floyd