Military training accidents....

[Bigmack]

Anybody got any stats or sites for training accidents in the military?

I've googled "training accident statistics military" and like that, but it just gives reports of individual accidents.

I'm looking for some ammo for counter-recruiting.

[Wickerman]

1. here is an interesting comparison

of all types of Military death over time.

The chart below is made to better disucss claims that more died in peace time in the Carter years than die now in combat.

"He is citing raw absolute numbers. They are the result of two things: A 27% drop in the size of the armed forces, and a 54% drop in the death rate from accidents. If you plot the death rate per 100,000 and break it out by cause of death, you get




http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/008312.php

[Bigmack]

2. Thanks... good start! nt

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