Sentence examples for desertion rate from inspiring English sources

Their high desertion rate infected the regulars.

The desertion rate of 50percentt or more speaks for itself, with crews sometimes being replaced several times over in the course of a single voyage.

Thieu's government, corrupt and inefficient as ever, now faced enormous difficulties with inflation, unemployment, apathy, and an enormous desertion rate in the army.

Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, the Army's desertion rate is now 7 to 10 percent.

In and around Baghdad, the desertion rate is lower, but even among Saddam's elite Republican Guard divisions, whose loyalty to their leader has been unquestioned until now, 23% have deserted.

A modest investment in wire or digital money transfer systems could ease that problem, reduce the desertion rate and make it harder for corrupt commanders to steal recruits' pay.

Combine desertion and defection rates among the security forces and the numbers are simply not sustainable.

Desertion rates are high.

The new force, plagued by high desertion rates, had only 2,000 soldiers.

Most suffer excused leave, AWOL and desertion rates making them chronically under-strength.

And we're actually seeing an increase now in the desertion rates in these fighters.