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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Has anyone looked at the number of severely maimed people (who would almost certainly have died if they had sustained such injuries in Vietnam/WWII etc.)?
I'm really curious how the death counts would compare if we had the same kind of medical care now that we had when we were in Vietnam.
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Also, the dramatic improvement in the body armor available to the troops has undoubtedly turned a lot of would-have-been-deaths-in-prior-conflicts into major (and even minor) non-fatal injuries.
