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[Cletus Miller]

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.

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.