It sounds very high to me as well. But I DO know that injured Coalition soldiers that are medi-vaced from Iraq to hospitals in Germany and elsewhere that die are not counted as "killed in Iraq" because their death certificates do not show they died in Iraq. So, the question becomes, what IS the number of US deaths from action in Iraq?
Apparently, it's not new for the military:
(note the source of this info!)
U.S. Suffered Over 20,000 More Military Dead During Vietnam War Than Previously Reported
By Ted Sampley
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
September 1998
The U.S. Veteran Dispatch has uncovered Pentagon records revealing that the United States suffered nearly 20,000 more fatalities during the Vietnam War era than the 58,182 servicemen whose names are engraved on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
According to a U.S. Army file called TAGCEN which contains over 293,000 Army casualty records, there are 19,644 U.S. Army servicemen who were killed or died between January 1, 1965 and December 31, 1975 that are not counted as Vietnam war dead because their death certificates were written in other countries, including the United States.
Full text here... usvetdsp.com |
