Posted on 11/03/2007 9:08:48 AM PDT by InfantryMarine
Military Death Numbers compiled by a friend from DOD reports.
Below is some very interesting data reference deaths in the military. I guarantee you will not read this in your local newspaper nor will you see it on the daily news broadcast. I pray this will help you to enlighten folks around you to the brave and courageous young people serving in our military.
Deaths in the Military
1980 .......... 2,392
1981 .......... 2,380
1982 ......... 2,318
1983 .......... 2,465
1984 .......... 1,999
1985 .......... 2,252
1986 .......... 1,984
1987 .......... 1,983
1988 ......... 1,819
1989 .......... 1,636
1990 .......... 1,508
1991 .......... 1,787
1992 .......... 1,293
1993 .......... 1,213
1994 ......... 1,075
1995 .......... 1,040
1996 .......... 974
1997 .......... 817
1998 .......... 826
1999 .......... 795
2000 ......... 774
2001 .......... 890
2002 .......... 1,007
2003 .......... 1,410 [534*]
2004 .......... 1,887 [900*]
2005 .......... [919*]
2006 .......... [920*]
Figures so noted with an asterisk (*) indicates deaths as a result of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
You may initially feel confused when you look at these figures - especially when you see that in 1980, during the term of President Jimmy Carter,there were 2,392 US military fatalities. What this clearly indicates is that our media and our liberal politicians pick and choose and tend to present only those facts that support their agenda driven reporting.
Another fact our left media and politicians like to slant is that these brave men and women losing their lives are minorities.
Wrong again.
The latest census shows the following:
European descent (white).........69.12%
Hispanic.........................12.5%
African American.................12.3%
Asian.............................3.7%
Native American...................1.0%
Other.............................2.6%
The fatalities over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom are:
European descent (white)........ 74.31%
Hispanic.........................10.74%
African American..................9.67%
Asian.............................1.81%
Native American...................1.09%
Other.............................2.33%
Source:
These statistics are published by DOD and may be viewed at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
Pass this on,Semper Fi
“No. The numbers are meaningless unless you know the number of people in the military each year.”
Each number represents the lives of American service-people. Hardly “meaningless”.
This thread is not about percentages, ratios, or denominators. It’s about the NUMBER of American service-members lost each year.
Even you should be able to grasp that but you seem to have a hard time grasping anything that conflicts with your preconceived notions.
Here is a chart that tells the actual death rate in the years that you list.
http://www.murdoconline.net/pics/mildeathcharts.html
Great catch. Really puts things in perspective. MSM would never report on this — violates their storyline of soliders as victims instead of heroes.
bttt
Well let’s see. In 1980 .11% of the people in the military died.
And in 2000 .05% of the people in the military died.
By ignoring the population, you have no idea of the “death rate.”
A major factor (perhaps THE major factor) is the dramatic improvement in trauma care over the last decade. We are saving many that previously would have been lost.
Noted! Thank you
And you know this how?
He was the guy who typed the letters for the officers to sign. He saw just about everything that went on in his unit. So if he was an idiot he misunderstood what he was seeing. Unlikely. If he was full of crap, then he was intentionally lying. Not sure why he would make that kind of stuff up.
Many of the fatalities are accidental deaths - vehicle rollovers, falling coke machines, training-related deaths, etc. The NCO who died at Ft. Hood during a LandNav course this summer is a classic example of deaths that occur, as is the Colonel I worked for who died of a heart attack during his morning PT run.
TRADOC (training and doctrine command) was making a full-court press effort at reducing accidental and training deaths the last few years of my service - '90-'96. That should serve to explain part of the drop in numbers in the list above during those years.
It may be interesting to note that many of the OEF/OIF deaths are accidental rather than being combat related.
Just a sidebar...the fellow I mentioned has been nicely memorialized:
Library to be dedicated to fort soldier killed in Iraq
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666205/posts
Perhaps those figures are not yet available. That’s just my guess.
There hasn’t been a reduction in accidental deaths in the military. They just aren’t shown for the last two years on this graph. The accidental deaths, deaths from illness, and self inflicted deaths have remained fairly constant. The only increase in deaths is the number who have died in combat, which are already well known.
what is amazing is that under clinton, there were 8,033 military deaths, under bush, counting the casualties of war, there were 7,803
But also traffic accidents, heart attacks, cancer, etc.
Get a few million people in one group, many more deaths occur than we realize. (A younger, more healthy crowd skews the statistics, but this is indeed, very sobering.)
Thanks for the heads-up. I’m going to Huachuca next year for a reunion. I’ll be sure to look at this.
It is said that there are fewer combat & bomb deaths in Iraq than in CA: a similar size area with equal populations.
I get 7514 under Clinton, and 7033 under Bush. Your comparison is inaccurate because the numbers from 2005-2006 are incomplete. These numbers are not useful anyway, as far as military success is concerned. A certain percentage of all populations will die in any given time frame. This includes the military. Clinton is not responsible for the 1040 deaths in 1995, any more than Bush is responsible for the 891 deaths in 2001. People die, all the time. Even in the military.
There were no US soldiers killed in the Serbian conflict, which might explain why you didn’t hear about it. You seem to not understand that these non-combat related deaths are the same as deaths in any other population. Illnesses, accidents and suicides would not be in the news, because they happen every day, and there are way too many to record.
If you compare combat and bombing deaths in Iraq with all the deaths in California, that is true. If you compare all of the deaths in Iraq, with all the deaths in California, that is most definately not true. It is far safer in California than Iraq.
For later.
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