Keeping or Changing Rank in T2K

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Originally Posted by Raellus

As you noted, even folks who were clerk-typists, truck drivers, cooks, etc. would have real, crunchy combat experience by 2000. In that sense, at least, divisions in 2000 would be leaner and meaner than they were when the war first kicked off.

Soviet doctrine called for massive attacks on rear areas -- including air assault and airborne insertions into rear areas. Those clerk-typists who survived those attacks would have been fighting the cream of the Soviet crop -- they'd be long in experience against highly-trained enemy troops.