Thursday, May 15, 2008

War Deaths

http://fatu.us/images/Army/Iraq/Iraq%20war%20426.jpg

As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics:

The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:

1980 .......... 2,392 (Carter Year)

1981 .......... 2,380 (Reagan Year)
1984 .......... 1,999 (Reagan Year)
1988 .......... 1,819 (Reagan Year)


1989 .......... 1,636 (George H W Year)
1990 .......... 1,508 (George H W Year)
1991 .......... 1,787 (George H W Year)
1992 .......... 1,293 (George H W Year)


1993 .......... 1,213 (Clinton Year)
1994 .......... 1,075 (
Clinton Year)
1995 .......... 2,465 (
Clinton Year)
1996 .......... 2,318 (
Clinton Year)
1997 .......... 817 (
Clinton Year)
1998 .......... 2,252 (
Clinton Year)
1999 .......... 1,984 (
Clinton Year)
2000 ...........1,983 (
Clinton Year)


2001 ............. 890 (George W Year)
2002 .......... 1,007 (George W Year)
2003 .......... 1,410 (George W Year)
2004 .......... 1,887 (George W Year)
2005 ............. 919 (George W Year)
2006.............. 920 (George W Year)
2007.............. 899 (George W Year)


Clinton< /st1:place> years (1993-2000): 14,000 deaths
George W years (2001-2006): 7,932 deaths

BHT finds this interesting. It's a partial reprint of an email floating around. Some light checking and we find them probably credible.

Here is the Snopes link.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your resource is mistaken, please refer to http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/Death_Rates.pdf for accurate data.

What is so revealing in this comparison is that while death is horrendous, death is not eliminated because of peacetime.

It also shows our military has excellent equipment and is well trained to stay alive! In the previous administration, 1 in every 1567 GI's made the ultimate sacrifice. In this administration, 1 in every 890 GI's did.

My figures may be off, but during an intense war, this represents an increase to .11% (not 1.11%) of the entire military from .06% casualty rate in peacetime.

BigHugeThing said...

To access the previous comments statistics go to http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/ and download the Death Rates.pdf. His link may not work as given.

Thanks for the additions and insights.