Rank and File

(34) Unless they are specialists, rank and file are replaceable by any available personnel from the Corps or from the linked battalion groups. As with NCOs, replacement drafts will be first taken from the personnel who formerly served with the unit concerned, and then from any other personnel from the Corps or group, but no guarantee can be given that a man will return to his ex-unit. Length of time in the Training Depot will be in general the deciding factor in determining at what stage men are sent forward.