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[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think we have to factor out the body armor. I'm just thinking that (aside from psychological effects) in the past it's been more that there have been a relatively large proportion of soldiers who survived with no debilitating, expensive, permanent or long-lasting injury; a chunk of soldiers who died; and a relatively small number of soldiers who survive but have debilitating, expensive, permanent or long-lasting injuries.

I'm thinking the proportions of the groups may have changed, with a shift toward a greater proportion of survivors, but of those survivors, a greater number are kinda really severely fucked up. I mean, yes, they are doing amazing amazing things with artificial limbs, etc., but that is really expensive and not the same thing as being whole-ish.

Seems you are mostly correct:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...538621,00.html [higher percentage of casualties are amputees than in 20th c. conflicts]