Unit Lifetime Assignments

[Ken White]

What happens to everyone Dave joins up with?

About 60% get out early and do not go to 20 to 30 years (generally 22 in the British Army unless one gets selected for the long service commissioning program); some of those will also leave the 1SKR for other units. About 15% are injured or become too ill to continue to serve and another 5% get killed more or less in the line of duty and since Dave was one of about 70 or so who joined the 1SKR that year, that leaves only about 13 other guys, a couple of whom applied for and got a commission, two or three of whom get to to be Company Sgt Majors, three to five S/Sgt or Qm Sgt, about the same number of Corporals and maybe two to four long serving Privates (the British don't do 'up or out').