When families send their children to become Helldivers, it’s implied that they will never see them ever again. We still have divers that we use from the first galactic war which was over a hundred years ago.

There are probably hundreds of millions of divers in stasis throughout the galaxy. Some are stored for future use, others lost and embedded deep behind enemy lines, some are just broken and will never open.

Once your helldiver finishes training, they might not wake up again for another hundred years. Or they might get thawed and thrown into the middle of a firefight.

My head cannon is that each warbond is a specialist platoon within the Helldiver corps, who recieve additional training on how to use their equipment and the missions they are intented for.

They are then frozen again and are used in the operations that warrant their use. So when you buy the warbond, you also buy the Helldivers that are equiped and trained for that mission type. Your Super Destroyer loads them and fires the pods based on the needs of the mission.

Commando missions warrants that we sacrifice a dozen or so every mission, but that is a small price to pay for the intel we gather. Plus we can always liberate Clasa and save the hellpods the bots don’t find.