[John123]

Very interesting. Were these men and women killed in combat or do these numbers also include routine every day accidents?

[joe fonebone]

what is amazing is that under clinton, there were 8,033 military deaths, under bush, counting the casualties of war, there were 7,803...can anyone (libs) explain that? I can because I served under carter...gutting the military results in lost lives, period..

[mtbopfuyn]

Listening to CNNABCNBCCBSMSN, one would assume hundreds of thousands of poor uneducated blacks were being killed on the front lines for the sole purposed of amusing Bush.

[jonrick46]

Finally, we have the statistics.

[Boundless]

Even the ABS media is noticing.

Their readers are demanding bad news from Iraq,
and well, there isn’t much.

The casualty rate is now at or below the peacetime
accident rate.

Interesting trend in the peacetime rate.
Any correlation between it and the
hummer replacing the jeep?
Or just a result of troop level reductions?
_______
ABS - Agenda Bias Spin
(even the left has to admit it:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/015810.php)

[BGHater]

Thats alot of heart attacks and other physical ailments and accidents. Keep in mind the military back then was Huge.

[Royal Wulff]

Why are there no deaths in 2005 and 2006 not related to Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom?

[purpleraine]

Pardon me if my question is ignorant. I went to the link and it says active duty deaths. Does that include guard units?

[trumandogz]

Your numbers while quite interesting are meaningless statistics without knowing the Denominator for each of the posted numbers.

In other words do we know the total number of people in the military in 1986 and the total number of people in the military in 2006?

With knowing both the Numerator and Denominator we would know exactly what percentage of military personal died each year.

[rbg81]

A lot of deaths in the military are due to training accidents. When you have a less educated, lower quality force (as we did prior to the 1980s), these deaths are going to be higher due to...acts of stupidity. For example, a friend of mine (who was a clerk typist in the Army in the early 80s) used to tell me that the most common death letter involved people who went out into the field on manuevers, fell asleep in the high grass, and got run over by tanks. Not very smart. I am sure that the more lethal (and hopefully less essential) training practices have been phased out over the years as well.

[Lancey Howard]

Semper fidelis BUMP!

[petercooper]

bttt

[VOA]

RE: 1992-2000 figures

Want to reduce deaths in the US Military?
Just shrink it!
(aka “The Clinton Military Doctrine”)

[Williams]

It is interesting, but according to this the only deaths in the military in the past two years are in the Iraq fighting, which can't be correct. And you can't dismiss the casualties in war by saying they are less than or equal to peacetime accidents and illnesses. The fact is soldiers died in the war. In my very humble opinion the numbers are not especially large considering the nature of the war, the number of years of fighting, etc. but of course one soldier lost or wounded is a lot to them, family and friends.

It seems to me they are heroes doing their job for all of us and there is no reason to diminish their losses.

[True Republican Patriot]

Great Post!

[armymarinemom]

Two of my sons have had training incidents occur. One took a fall wearings nods and the other had parachute failure.

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[PAR35]

If the numbers for 2005 and 2006 are claiming that there were no deaths other than for the operations in Asia, I’d say the numbers were wrong.

[KSCITYBOY]

truth bump

[Para-Ord.45]

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