Rest and Rehabilitation

Post-traumatic stress disorder was as yet unnamed during WWII, so the usual procedure was to give men and women leave if possible to recover from "combat fatigue". We can tell from the term that people suffering from stress disorders but not having been in a combat role were less likely to get help from the military medical systems. Men were supposed to "man up" while women were "just being women".

 

Well done! The VA has kept me alive all these years. I got a million dollar body and a ten dollar brain.

 

Sometimes they would be reinforced and the unit trained together for a time, "shaking down" as it were. If the core was still strong they'd need less time, just enough to get the new men integrated, evaluated and designated to specific internal tasks. Several variables, obviously. The distance from their last point of deployment could be a metric for how much damage they'd taken.

Further expansion if you want it.