War Is More Than Just Dead Soldiers And Dead Civilians

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: If you've never had the 'pleasure' of serving in a combat zone, congratulations. I have not been so lucky. :(




Young: More pay for troops who lose genitals
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Mar 17, 2011 16:22:07 EDT

VA officials said most service members suffering genital injuries have other injuries, usually to the legs, that make them eligible for larger traumatic injury insurance payments. A double amputee, for example, receives the maximum $100,000 payment.

[howard112211]

1. From what I heard the death to wound ratio among ground troops is about 2:1

So about two wounded that survive for each one that is killed. I was never in any military, but I have wondered whether if I was, I would prefer to simply get killed than to be wounded.