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Oops, More Unexpected Casualties
By David Hackworth, AlterNet
September 24, 2002
Back in 1990, a few months before the bombs started dropping on Baghdad, an
Army pal slipped me a Pentagon study based on World War II experiences
estimating that U.S. forces would suffer 50,000 casualties during the projected
six-month campaign. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf's staff later predicted a
still-staggering 20,000 dead or wounded. Because Stormin' Norman's forces
brilliantly zapped Saddam Hussein's mob in a record-breaking 100-hour ground
war, actual U.S. casualties were a mere fraction of these two estimates 147
Killed In Action and 457 Wounded In Action. At least at first look.
But within weeks after our warriors took off their boots and hung up their
rifles, dozens, then hundreds, of Gulf War vets became casualties. And as the
years tick by, this figure has already grown to tens of thousands.
It wasn't bullets that took them down, but a casualty-producer the experts
didn't count on called Gulf War Illness. So far, according to an April 2002
Veterans Affairs report, an additional 7,758 Desert Storm vets have died, while
198,716 vets have filed claims for medical and compensation benefits. Of the
claims filed, 156,031 have been granted as service-connected, with more vets
being designated casualties as each day passes. The 198,716 figure represents a
staggering 28 percent of the 696,579 vets who fought in the Gulf War conflict!
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