Here all the time I thought we only lost a few hundred total in BOTH gulf wars.
Besides how did they get such an exact figure for the VIETNAM WAR.
umm... I suspect a big part of it invovled not sniffing glue and doing beer bongs, licking Australian Toads, nor huffing gas from parked cars.
For those that DID do those things, let's try to imagine how those numbers might come up- first and foremost are those radio calls- "one of our guys got killed, please come pick him up."
This kind of thing is logged.
Let's imagine another scenario- E2 snuffy is dicking around with his rifle, fucks up, and shoots his friend- "damn- does that hurt? It's looks painful. Bet it's gonna leave a mark."
survey says- that gets logged too.
Another scenario- PVT FumDuck flips a track...and dies. That too gets logged.
It all gets logged- either "yup- saw him die" or "yup- saw the plane impact with no chute popping out" or "well, he was alive for a while, but it's been forty years."
Wouldn't surprise me that the "names on the wall" are off by one to two hundred- that would work out to an accuracy rate of 99.017%...but that would be stretching it.
Finally, odd person, your numbers for the gulf war are beyond ludicrous, they exceed rediculousness, and they fail even to match up the the efforts we would expect from an idiot studying to be a moron...and finding the coursework hard sledding.
Thanks for playing, go somewhere far away, and we will call you when we are bored and need comic relief. In the meantime, screw tinfoil- wrap your head in tungsten. You need it.