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Good point -- Many people still don't understand the military.

Case in point, the word 'casualty'.

The average person believes casualty is 'Killed in Action' or dead.

CNN for about a week started listing all the wounded soldiers as Casualties, correct in doing so. But why did they switch their vocabulary.

Casualty represents those who are killed or wounded, we call them a 'Casualty of War'. But I promise you if you ask your co-workers (Granted they have no military background) they will think 'killed in action'.

At least that is what I have found.