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To: D. Long who wrote (110502)	8/8/2003 11:42:03 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi D. Long; Re: "Before today, five days passed without a single US casualty." We had a US civilian accompanying soldiers killed by a bomb. And rumor has it that the resistance just upped their pay for attacks. If this were so, and there were rumors of this pay increase already about, the rational behavior on the part of Iraqi resistance soldiers would be to postpone their attacks until after the pay increase. -- Carl P.S. "Casualty" doesn't mean dead. The only casualties who are reported are those who die. The ones who survive, perhaps blind, or missing a foot or arm, are not reported in the news but are also casualties. The problem with following the war by counting the dead is that there are so few dead that the statistics are very inaccurate. A better indication of how the war is going would be the number of attacks. Here's a typical military definition of casualty: A casualty is broadly defined as a person whose services are lost to Navy due to (1) serious illness or serious injury (SI). (2) very seriously ill or injured (VSI). (3) incapacitating illness or injury (III). (4) wounds received in action (WIA) whether serious or not. (5) physical absence and unaccounted for, where it cannot be immediately determined if the absence is voluntary or involuntary (i.e., a member’s status is so uncertain the unit commander must first gather and evaluate the facts to make a proper determination). Such members should initially be reported in an interim category of “duty status - whereabouts unknown” (DUSTWUN). Do not use DUSTWUN to account for persons who appear to be unauthorized absence (UA) rather than a casualty. MILPERSMAN 1770-020 provides further explanation of DUSTWUN. (6) missing, including missing in action (MIA); interned or detained in a foreign country; and captured, beleagured, or besieged by a hostile force. (7) death (for suicides see MILPERSMAN 1770-120). (8) dependent death of Active or Reserve Navy member (see MILPERSMAN 1770-250). buperscd.technology.navy.mil