Stubob
11-15-2007, 09:27 AM
This is a wild fact about getting hurt. Being in the Military is a commitment in peace as well as in war.
"Getting killed on the battlefield is one way that people in the military wind up dying, but it's not the main way."
According to the raw figures, of the 2,380 members of the military who died during active duty in 1981, 1,524 were killed in accidents, 145 by homicide, 457 by illness and 241 from self-inflicted wounds. That compares with the 1,942 killed in 2005; of that number, 632 died from accidents, 739 from hostile action, 49 from homicide, 281 from illness, 150 from self-inflicted wounds and 72 whose causes of death were still pending. Eleven deaths in ’81 and 19 deaths in ’05 were classified as “undetermined.”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
"Getting killed on the battlefield is one way that people in the military wind up dying, but it's not the main way."
According to the raw figures, of the 2,380 members of the military who died during active duty in 1981, 1,524 were killed in accidents, 145 by homicide, 457 by illness and 241 from self-inflicted wounds. That compares with the 1,942 killed in 2005; of that number, 632 died from accidents, 739 from hostile action, 49 from homicide, 281 from illness, 150 from self-inflicted wounds and 72 whose causes of death were still pending. Eleven deaths in ’81 and 19 deaths in ’05 were classified as “undetermined.”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf