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U.S.
lacks mechanism to accurately track troops wounded in Iraq A
Running Log of the Wounded UPI
reports : As
many as 1 of every 10 soldiers from the war on terror evacuated to the Army's
biggest hospital in Europe was sent there for mental problems. Between
8 and 10 percent of nearly 12,000 soldiers from the war on terror, mostly from
Iraq, treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany had "psychiatric
or behavioral health issues," according to the commander of the hospital,
Col. Rhonda Cornum. That
means about 1,000 soldiers were evacuated for mental problems. The
hospital has treated 11,754 soldiers from the war on terror, with 9,651 from Iraq
and the rest from Afghanistan, according to data released by the hospital. Also
see The Missing Wounded. American
Count Dates
and sources of Americans killed in Iraq since 5/1/03 are documented
in this file. Admittedly the file is incomplete, for the Department of Defense
does not maintain old records. All data was compiled from http://www.defenselink.mil.
If something is amiss in the data collection,
please contact Margaret Griffis. Iraqi
Civilian Count We
maintain a daily count based on news reports.
It is not intended to be complete. There is no agency that keeps track of accurate
numbers of Iraqis killed. JustForeignPolicy
maintains a running estimate based on the Lancet
study with the rate of increase derived from the Iraq
Body Count. |