Your message, Colonel, is that because there were no funds to transfer the three sergeants you wanted to transfer they left the service; as a result the taxpayer is going to pay a lot more money to bring in three replacements, train them and move them up to sergeant level. It is that simple, correct?
Votre message, mon colonel, est que, comme vous n'avez pas suffisamment de fonds pour muter les trois sergents que vous vouliez muter, ces derniers ont quitté l'armée.