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In the Gathering Storm: Fall of Cadia detachment Castellans of the Imperium there is a rule called Flock to the front line. It says
"each time a troops unit from this detachment is completely destroyed, roll a D6. On a 5+, you can immediately place a new unit into ongoing reserves that is identical, in terms of the original number of models, weapons, and upgrades, to the unit that was just destroyed. This unit counts as being part of the original detachment, So roll a D6 as described above if they are subsequently destroyed. Victory points are awarded as normal for new units in this detachment that have been completely destroyed"

My question is, how does this ruling affect troops that are broken into combat squads, and have a dedicated transport. Does the original troops slot have to be destroyed (all 3 separate units for all rules and purposes), or each unit(2 combat squads and their DT) that is destroyed benefits from the rule and has the chance of coming back. If a vehicle is wrecked and stays on the field do you get it back?

If you have 10 Marines in a dedicated Rhino, and those 10 marines are combat squadding, then you have 3 separate units.

Think of it in terms of Kill points. If you kill the Rhino you get a kill point whether or not you kill any of the marines.

So each of those 3 units get's to roll seperately for that rule, and come back identical to the way it started the game.

From Combat Squads:

"A unit split into combat squads therefore is now two separate units for all game purposes".

And then:

" It cannot split up or join back together later on in the battle, nor can you use a redeployment to split up a unit or join it back together."

Dedicated Transports are not the same unit as the unit they were purchased with, so would be subject to 'Flock to the Front Lines' separately from the unit they were bought for.