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• 07 Aug 06
  

  Ilona Meagher

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  • Pentagon casualty   reports   show 2,390 service members dead from Iraq and Afghanistan and over 16,000 wounded. By far the vast majority of  the wounded and dead are from Iraq.

      

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    But by Dec. 8, 2005, the military had evacuated another 25,289 service members from Iraq and Afghanistan  for injuries or illnesses not caused directly by enemy bullets or bombs, according to the U.S. Transportation  Command.

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