12.24.2008

An incidental item

Six paragraphs down in an article about a new medical product being used by Army medics comes this sobering note:



Today, 90 percent of injured troops survive their wounds, the highest rate of any war, Cordts said in an interview. He credited better training of combat medics, better body armor the troops wear and better tactics they use on the battlefield, as well improved bandages, tourniquets and so on.

[From Army halts use of new battlefield first aid item | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser]

GlobalSecurity.org reports 4,141 US killed and 30,182 US Wounded in Iraq as of this month.



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