On the other hand though, what's going to happen to the over all functionality of yourunit when the CO, RSM, ADJ all deploy? What's going to hurt a unit more, the absence of a CO and RSM for a year or a half dozen corporals?
Do you people never stop to think? To really understand what it is you are saying? What it means? And what it WILL mean in the future?
First off I am going to leave Afghans out of the equation, as I believe that they are not "human" to you, if indeed anyone is, and only speak to the Canadians, your fellow military peoples.
Units are people, they are not things. Those people have family and friends who are impacted if they are wasted like dixie cups, and thinking about them as if they were less important and thus disposable, is beyond comprehension. In know that you just stated sending them, however, the real outcome of sending corporals, is they could be dead, while the officer most likely would not be, and so what if his unit "misses" him for a year. Send his ass, not the corporals.
This is just such a load of crap, that it too is beyond comprehension. That and other nations sending soldiers to Afghanistan to make the Americans happy yet not letting them leave the wire. Jut sit around and eat all day. Either you support the war and choose to send soldiers to soldier or you don't support the war and you don't send any troops. Don't pay lip servce.
If your commanding officers and the Canadian government were less blood thirsty, and more humane, they would have you sitting on the sidelines too. If they could not pull your asses out completely.
Frankly, I applaud those countries sitting their people out, they are keeping them safe and not destroying Afghans.