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attrition
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Starship Troopers
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The band suffered a lot of attrition but somehow they always kept it going.†
Chpt 6 *
With eight companies that gave us not quite a drop each week, and then it gave us a little more than a drop each week as attrition continued, whereupon the drops got tougher — over mountains, into the arctic ice, into the Australian desert, and, before we graduated, onto the face of the Moon, where your capsule is placed only a hundred feet up and explodes as it ejects — and you have to look sharp and land with only your suit (no air, no parachute) and a bad landing can spill your air and kill you.†
Chpt 9
Some of the attrition was from casualties, deaths or injuries, and some of it was just from refusing to enter the capsule — which some did, and that was that; they weren't even chewed out; they were just motioned aside and that night they were paid off.†
Chpt 9

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