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Re:Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat with Tour of Duty in ... by megaman22 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @04:35PM (#16588065)
Arguably a more deadly place than the war-zones they would be deploying to

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/09/08/homici...

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Re:Navy Medics Get Prepared for Combat with Tour of Duty in ... by warriormonk5 on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @05:32PM (#16588486)
So at it's peak we had ~160k Americans in Iraq. At Afghanistan peak, we had ~100k.

Chicago has ~11 times as many Americans. I'll take my chances with Chicago.

It's actually shows how remarkably low we were on the casualty rate in the wars we had. Far cry from the civil war (~25% casualty rate).

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