A look at the applications at VACRS for permanent relocation back to the mainland reveals that most of the applicants fit into this category: low-ranking soldiers, now living in veterans 'homes, who never married, and who left the military early so that they have no pensions.
從退輔會申請定居的案件中，可以發現這種「在榮家安養、單身未成家或早年退伍自謀生活，因此未領有終身俸的低階士官兵」，正是回鄉定居的主要對象。