I'd appreciate it if you could help me
Who do you think has a higher mortality rate, the common soldier or his captain? It is said that the death rate is higher for the captain. The reason is that the captain is the one who leads the soldiers, so he has to fight at the front of the line.
When the captain is promoted to a higher rank and becomes in a position to plan operations at headquarters, the mortality rate declines. So people in the middle are more likely to die.------In the film "They shall not grow old", compiled from actual footage and testimonies from World War I, one of the British soldiers who had completed his training said this as he was heading to the war zone in Europe on a ship.
He said, "I wasn't happy about the promotion because there were so many casualties among the privates. So I took off my sleeve badge in the bathroom and threw it out the window." Was there widespread information among the general soldiers that junior officers were more likely to die? According to the website of "Hajime Araki", the death rate of lieutenant commander and captains was high because the assault unit in the Russo-Japanese War was a battalion. (It is possible that the record also includes the ranks that were honorably advanced after being killed in action.)
Overall, 15% of infantry officers died. (Omitted) Even throughout the Russo-Japanese War, the percentage of infantry officers killed in the war was 10%, and for each department, it was only 8.8% of the total. The words were exchanged: "Newly replenished infantry second lieutenants who arrived at the front died or were wounded and sent home after an average of 10 days. Even the regimental flag bearers fell one after another, the commander, a captain, died, and his deputy lieutenant was immediately shot. The second lieutenant who took his place was shot the moment he gave the order to charge. This seems to have been the reality of field fighting in the Russo-Japanese War.
-- 将校の死傷率からわかる日露戦争の実態
The phenomenon that captains are prone to death is the same in the case of businessmen in companies. We often hear that middle managers are the most stressed. They can be crushed in the midst of a promotion and increased workload. Promotion in a company can be a good thing, but it may also have these disadvantages.
