America's Longest War: New Study Examines Demographics of U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan

[The Northerner]

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www.DemocracyNow.org - Nearly 1,800 U.S. military members have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began there 10 years ago — the longest war in U.S. history. A new report examines these deaths, based on information drawn from obituaries and tribute pages for all 1,446 U.S. military casualties since the war began in October 2001 until December 2010. Democracy Now! speaks with the lead author of "American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from Which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came." Michael Zweig is a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "In the U.S., about 62 percent of the population are now working class," Zweig says. "Of the casualties, a 78 percent are working-class people."

[Firebrand Gary]

1. Class warfare? Eric Cantor, you MOTHER %$#&*$! It's the 99% that are fighting this war.

Class warfare? Let's say it again, Class warfare? Class warfare? 78% of the causalities are of the working class.

Edited: For my strong language.

[hack89]

2. So based on the occupations of 12 percent of the fathers and 4 percent of the mothers

they can determine this? OK.

That 78 percent figure comes from 163 death out of 887 - 724 went into the military straight out of high school. They knew the pre-enlistment occupations of 60 percent of that 163.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/publications/Casualty%20study%20main%20report%20Oct%202011.pdf

[hack89]

3. Here is the actual study - it is not as clear cut as one would think.

http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/publications/Casualty%20study%20main%20report%20Oct%202011.pdf

[EvilMonsanto]

4. Shoulda Talked about rape

that 1/3 is it? Women in the military are likely to get raped?