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17 Aug 06

Bombs Aimed at G.I.’s in Iraq Are Increasing - New York Times

  • An analysis of the 1,666 bombs that exploded in July shows that 70 percent were directed against the American-led military force, according to a spokesman for the military command in Baghdad. Twenty percent struck Iraqi security forces, up from 9 percent in 2005. And 10 percent of the blasts struck civilians, twice the rate from last year.
16 Aug 06

Iraqi Death Toll Rose Above 3,400 in July - New York Times

  • An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed each day in July, according to the figures. The total number of civilian deaths that month, 3,438, is a 9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly double the toll in January.
07 Aug 06

Incalculable pain - Salon

  • 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.

Newsday.com: In case we all forgot, Americans are still dying in Iraq

  • I was watching the endless television coverage of Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon killing women and children and then picking up the papers to read almost exclusively of the same thing. I found no picture on television and almost no mention in newspapers of Americans dying.
27 Jul 06

For wounded veterans, the war goes on (Page 1 of 3)

  • A study by the Insurance Information Institute, or
    III, reports that the average soldier in Iraq has a 1-in-300 chance
    of being wounded in action. Department of Defense statistics reveal
    that nearly 500 personnel are wounded in action in any given month.
    Extrapolating from these figures, the III study estimates that,
    absent a significant drawdown of troop strength in the near future,
    60,000 to 80,000 troops may ultimately end up wounded.
25 Jul 06

Salt Lake Tribune - A soldier's long journey home

  • They're getting home. Alive and fast.

       During the Vietnam War, wounded troops often lingered for weeks before returning to the United States. Today, the injured can be treated in stateside hospitals within days.
24 Jul 06

Popular Mechanics - Helicopter Medevac Crews In Iraq

  • unarmed Army Black Hawks race to retrieve the wounded. Landing in Iraq's urban battle zones, flying when other aircraft are grounded, these helicopter medevac crews perform one of the war's toughest missions: saving lives.
22 Jul 06

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center: 5/17/06 - Support Our Troops, Anybody?


  • A case in point is Marine Lance Cpl. James Crosby. He left Iraq strapped to a gurney after his legs were paralyzed and his innards lacerated by shrapnel. When he exited the combat zone to head back home for treatment, he realized the military cut his pay by 50%. "Before you leave the combat zone, they swipe your ID card through a computer, and you go back to your base pay," he said.

WorkingForChange-Sick of killing

  • Yet the National
    Center for PTSD estimates that over the course of their lifetimes, over
    half of all male Vietnam vets, and nearly half of female Vietnam vets,
    have suffered full or partial PTSD.

Hidden Combat Wounds: Extensive, Deadly, Costly

  • There have been 53
    suicides among service members fighting in Iraq and nine among those fighting
    in Afghanistan, as reported in a review of suicide data from 2003 to July 19,
    2005

Grieving parents speak against the war


  • The Arredondos have established three scholarships in Alex Arredondo's name.
09 Jul 06

Attrition

  • As of May 2006, some 560,000 U.S. troops had rotated home from service in Afghanistan or Iraq (some, of course had by then returned more than once). Of these, some 30 percent received some form of medical attention, mainly for (in order of frequency) diseases, injuries, psychological conditions and combat wounds.
    • Better communications with the folks back home is causing combat stress back there as well. In past wars, the folks back home were very removed from the more brutal realities of war. To be sure, they knew the risks. But communications from the troops were slow, and usually "self censored"; that is, in writing home, a soldier would likely edit out the bad parts, merely saying "we saw a little action the other day" when he'd actually been on Omaha Beach, for example. Today, it's not unusual for a soldier who's been in a fight, to pick up his cell phone and call home to say "We just got his with some mortar rounds, but I'm OK." This may actually help the soldier's mental health, but its effects on the folks back home has not been considered. - on 2006-07-09
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AOL News - Father Who Sought Revenge in Iraq Is Back Home

  • National Guard member Joe Johnson volunteered to go to Iraq to avenge his son's death. But what he saw there caused a change of heart.
23 Jun 06

Boxer: Soldier's 'family was not told the truth'

  • U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer released documents today that appear to show
    that the Army completed its investigation in September 2005 into the deaths
    two years ago of two California National Guard soldiers in Iraq, but waited
    nearly nine months to inform the family of its conclusion that the two
    Americans had been killed by Iraqi forces during a joint patrol.
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