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Offline Pongo

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« on: March 31, 2004, 11:34:46 AM »
ouch

Really the first half of the month was looking ok with .5 per day casualty rates(not including mercenaries of course) But Iraq has really been lit up in the last 2 weeks moving the total to near 2 a day.
Maybe after the aniversery of shock and awe passes it will quiet down again.
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Offline LAWCobra

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« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2004, 12:00:15 PM »
And ofcoures the majority of them are US troops.
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« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2004, 12:02:41 PM »
so that would be what... couple hundred less than would have died from normal accidents and training during the same time period?

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« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2004, 12:05:03 PM »
Hats off to the brass for keeping casualties so low.
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2004, 12:05:12 PM »
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so that would be what... couple hundred less than would have died from normal accidents and training during the same time period?

lazs

Man your dumb.
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Offline Saurdaukar

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« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2004, 12:06:31 PM »
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Man your dumb.


"You're" actually.
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2004, 12:07:21 PM »
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so that would be what... couple hundred less than would have died from normal accidents and training during the same time period?

lazs


Is this a serious question that you want an answer to or is it asked to not make it sound like a lot?
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Offline Frogm4n

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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2004, 12:07:59 PM »
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"You're" actually.


lol my bad. Egg on my face.
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Offline 10Bears

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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2004, 12:09:05 PM »
Yeah right lazs you try telling veterans their lives are worth no more than drunken drivers that die in car accidents..

You sir are a totally disrespectful moron
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2004, 12:09:06 PM »
yeah... it is a serious question.

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Offline Frogm4n

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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2004, 12:11:15 PM »
The number of people that have died in training and normal accidents are not part of those stats laz. As are the number of GIs missing limbs.
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2004, 12:16:16 PM »
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yeah... it is a serious question.

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Here are the latest US military statistics I could find (mind you I didn't search very long).

1999 - Non-hostile deaths per 100,000 : 54.9

http://www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/casualty/wwt.pdf
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2004, 12:16:31 PM »
10 bears... there is a chance that I am a totaly disrespectful moron but that can't be proven by what I have said in this thread.

I have in no way implied that soldiers lives are worth more or less than anyone elses... drunk or not.  

I have implied that in large groups... people die.   They die from a variety of things.   I have implied as funked said, that we have kept casulties very low... so low in fact that they don't really rise much above what they would have been if the soldiers had stayed home and continued with normal home maintenance and training and driving to work.

As training tho... ya gotta admit that iraq is pretty good training.

I could imply that it is you who is the one using soldiers deaths to further your agenda and as such.... it is you who are being the disrespectful moron.... but in a sneaky liberal kinda way.

but... read what you want into it.

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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2004, 12:21:10 PM »
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so that would be what... couple hundred less than would have died from normal accidents and training during the same time period?


normally I agree with most of what you say laz, but that was a somewhat retarded statement.

 but just curius if you think that the normal and training accidents stopped during this time frame.  

these are an aditional 700, in adition to the ones who die from training accidents, homicideds, health problems, car accidents,......
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2004, 12:27:37 PM »
Latest I could find.

From: http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/Death_Rates.pdf

Now you guys have a place to start the argument. Proceed.


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