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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Point of order. Can we agree that the 7000 casualties have been distributed among waaay more than the 140000 American troops who may or may not currently be in Iraq? For instance, units who went and came back? Say, for example, that 280000 have been in-country. For those of you keeping score at home, that's one out of forty eligible for Purple Heart consideration.
On the other hand, some units, like the Marines who got into all that shit in Fallujah a few montha ago, have suffered greatly disproportionate casualties.
Now what else were you saying?
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I think that if we look carefully at the statistics, we'll find that the officer and noncomm ranks received a disproportionate number of Purple Hearts, while the enlisted men did a higher portion of the killing.
Fucking officers.
