Replies

Problem is, Charlie's wrong. And it's not just SFC Cardott in Haiti. Just to be clear, the media is reporting every death in Iraq, including accident and illness.

Calendar Year	Active Duty*	Full-Time Guard+Reserve (est)	Selected Reserve FTE**	Total Military FTE	Total Deaths	Accident	Hostile Action	Homicide	Illness	Pending	Self Inflicted	Terrorist Attack	Undetermined
1993	1,675,269	68,500	105,768	1,849,537	1,213	632		86	221		236	29	9
1994	1,581,649	65,000	99,833	1,746,482	1,075	544		83	206		232		10
1995	1,502,343	65,000	94,585	1,661,928	1,040	538		67	174		250	7	4
1996	1,456,266	65,000	92,044	1,613,310	974	527	1	52	173		188	19	14
1997	1,418,773	65,000	90,222	1,573,995	817	433		42	170		159		13
1998	1,381,034	65,000	88,149	1,534,183	826	445		25	168	10	161	3	14
1999	1,367,838	65,000	87,092	1,519,930	795	436		37	149	13	145		15
2000	1,372,352	65,000	86,524	1,523,876	774	400		31	124	42	142	17	18

Good find. Thanks.

As much as we can wish for a therapeutic war, it just does not exist.

War should be avoided. But when we get to it, there is no substitute for decisive actions and convincing victory.

Selective reporting is as old as journalism itself. If EVERY death on the highways was counted on EVERY news network, we'd stop driving.

Here is CIA's statistics. They maybe wanting in covert intelligence, but they are superb in the general data collection: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html

The death rate of population in USA 2003 est about 8 per 1000 people. Data from the table you posted varies at the level of 0.5 to 0.66 death per 1000 military personnel.

Yes, I know, the comparing of total population to the healthiest group is not quite right, still we talking about the high risk occupation.