US troop death from injured is at least 1,000. Math time.

[FloridaPat]

No where has the number of wounded that died been noted. So we have to do math to find out how many of the wounded have died. However, the figures below again are for those "wounded in action". I have heard figures as high as 33,000 wounded for Iraq and Afghanistan. Then there are still all those US troops who are not citizens and are not counted. I wonder if there is any truth in anything about this invasion.


" During the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War, 76 percent of American troops survived combat wounds. But in this century, the U.S. military's surgical teams "have saved the lives of an unprecedented 90 percent of the soldiers wounded in battle," the New England Journal of Medicine reported in December."

" This month the Defense Department released data showing that the official number of U.S. troops "wounded in action" in Iraq has gone over the 11,000 mark. Notably, 95 percent of those Americans were wounded after May 1, 2003."

[rwork]

1. I remember listening to NPR

They had a doctor who had come back from Iraq.He said they had improved on saving lives due to teams arriving to stablize the wounded.He mentioned a heart breaking story of a young marine who lost both legs, an arm. and part of his face,Also massive internal injuries.Then he quietly said,but he lived.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. And, we're not counting the suicides...

or deaths related to long-term disabilities and problems.

In one article talking about the advances in combat medicine, it was estimated that about 10,000 GIs were "saved" who would have died under the older systems.

I have no idea whether or not this number is realistic, but I do know that in Conscientious Objector counseling, we advise against volunteering for the medical corps. Many people have found out the hard way that the function of military medics is not so much to save their lives and limbs, but to patch them up well enough so they can get back and fight some more.

[Hosnon]

3. I've wondered for a long time what the statistical proportion

between deaths and injuries in war today is. Anyone know?

[FloridaPat]

4. 10% die in Iraq. 25% died in Vietnam War. That's a lot considering we

were fighting for - OK, why were we in Vietnam again? Anyone ever get an answer to that????