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Current Events » in reply to re: Tallying the Dead in Iraq

More people have died in Washington DC in the same timeframe...
Larry J — (archived)

according to an interview I saw last week. Should we give up on DC as a quagmire and leave?

Some 15 of the soldiers who've died in Iraq since the end of major combat operations have come from the local Army base, Ft. Carson. Each death gets a lot of coverage in the local media. Two of the deaths were from "non-combat gunshot wounds" - AKA weapons accidents. Several others have come from traffic accidents like the unfortunate soldier who was killed struck and killed while changing a flat tire. Every year, regardless of whether we're at peace or at war, an average of about 1,000 military personnel die in accidents. That's a fact of life of military service. In 1980, the accidental death toll was about 2,000. The statistics I've seen don't specify if the accidents were training related or off-duty, non-military related events, but a lot of military personnel get killed in training accidents each year.

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