This is an enlightening discussion. A staff position would be better for a non-army officer but how many staff positions would there be to fill? There'd be attrition, of course, but it probably wouldn't be high enough to find staff jobs for all of the displaced AF and navy offivers there would be by 2000. There'd be much more attrition among line officers and some of those vacancies would undoubtedly need to be filled by displaced AF or navy officers.
As a side note, I would assume that navy officers would go to Marine/naval infantry units before they would go to regular army units.
I guess there would be time for retraining (winter cantonment) and that unit NCOs would run plenty of interference if/when necessary.
Here's another question. With attrition amongst combat troops and few (if any) properly trained replacements post-TDM, what percentage of an infantry company (leg, mechanized, or airborne) would be made up of proper combat soldiers and what percentage would be made up of "filler" (AF, navy personal, former technicians, service and support troops, etc.)?
75-25, 60-40, 50-50?
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