Walter Reed, Military Medicine, a New Commission

[Bjorn, Pret]

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"4. Many within the Military Industrial Complex are spending money on 
things NOT of major concern during the time of THIS war.   We have had
over 16,000 MAJOR open amputations during the last 5 years in Iraq  and
Afghanistan and spent about $100,000 on research in this area.  The
Army and Navy spent $100 million on research on Malaria treatment last
year  while only 25 military people got malaria, most from not taking
their  drugs.   I do not say get rid of appropriate research and
development,  just keep it relative.  

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Is there a reliable source for numbers of casualties and types?
Watching the Bob Woodruff story on US television last week, I was
stunned to hear a military representative remark that there were only
six-hundred-odd amps to related to the war.  As the documentary went on,
I was led to understand that something like a third of U.S. ground
forces were thought to have some degree or other of TBI.  

Sounds like either number could well be a strategic exaggeration; but
who does the counting, and where can we find honest numbers?

Pret