Posted on 07/21/2011 4:31:10 PM PDT by SandRat
I wonder if they factored in length of combat service? If you are WIA your time in combat is cut shorter than a guy who does his whole tour unscathed. I know that there are guys who get WIA at the end of their tour.
Here’s the VA article about this.
http://www.research.va.gov/resdev/resources/pubs/docs/va_research_currents_jul-aug11.pdf
Tell that crap to my father who died at age 44 after having crashed his shot up fighter plane twice in WWII.
His brothers, one too young to serve, and one an uninjured Signal Corps member, died at 67 and 88 respectively.
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