SH3 Commander question

[USS Sea Tiger]

hey all

I am playing vanilla SH3 with the Commander addon. 89 percent realism.
I heard that between patrol 16 and usually 26 it retires a commander.

Mine has been fighting it out from 9 Sept to now Oct 43, and is about to embark on his 33rd patrol?

is that the norm or am I just doing something wrong??

[P_Funk]

Well have you enabled "realistic career length"? If you don't then you could ride it out to the end of the war.

[USS Sea Tiger]

My bad,

thanks so much!! :D