BBC World Service...report that attrition rate of US troops 50%

Gloria

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Mon Nov-15-04 11:52 AM
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BBC World Service...report that attrition rate of US troops 50%

Edited on Mon Nov-15-04 12:00 PM by Gloria

in at least one US unit in Fallujah. The ground reporter described the scene there, the newsreader added that out of a platoon or company or whatever the unit was, they had reports of about 36 wounded....which, showed the high attrition rate of the fighting there. I did the simple math based on the number of those in the unit and those wounded....about 50%!!!!

Now, how many are just wounded? How many are dead??? I really woke up when I heard that....can you imagine that???? 50%?????

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madrchsod

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Mon Nov-15-04 11:57 AM
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1. yes we are taking a lot of causalities

another report several days ago put a 50 man unit with 20% casualties..but we are mopping up now.

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cliss

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Mon Nov-15-04 01:19 PM
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2. That is a figure that's hard to believe.

Now, these seem to be smaller numbers. However, if you add it up it spells one thing: we're running out of people. We simply don't have enough troops to do the job.

The one thing we are NOT hearing is the number of wounded. Also, someone mentioned that only troops who are killed in combat are included in the casualty numbers. If a troop perishes at the hospital in Germany, for example, it's not counted.

A foray into Dante's Inferno.

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