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September 8

Danger of fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq for US infantrymen

Using WW2 as a reference, are there any figures for comparing the rates of fatalities for, say, every 1,000 infantryman years in these conflicts? Muzzleflash (talk) 01:21, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"The survival rates were 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan, compared with 86.5% in Vietnam". [1] Still looking for comparable WWII stats. Alansplodge (talk) 14:57, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Those survival rates of 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan are the proportion of wounded personnel who survived. -- ToE 00:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quite right ToE, I stand corrected. Alansplodge (talk) 12:46, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ref: VanHemert, Kyle. "What Were a U.S. Soldier's Odds of Dying in Each War?". Gizmodo. -- Only includes actual "wars" (not war-like "operations" such as Operation Enduring Freedom) —107.15.157.44 (talk) 18:15, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not surprisingly, the American Civil War was by far the worst. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:29, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]