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How Many Vets Have Been "Wounded" in Iraq and Afghanistan?
During the House debate over the Kucinich resolution calling for a timetable for military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rep. Bob Filner, chair of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, pointed out that hundreds of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have gone to the VA for service-related injuries.
The video of Filner's statement is here.
A March 13 fact sheet from Veterans for Common Sense gives a more precise figure: they reported that 508,152 Iraq and Afghanistan veteran patients had been treated at the VA. This figure is from VA documents obtained by VCS under FOIA, and appears to be current through the end of FY 2009, i.e. through September 30, 2009.
The VCS fact sheet is here.
Note that these figures are very different from the official DoD statistics for "wounded" at icasualties.org, often cited in press reports. The total U.S. wounded figure given there for "Operation Enduring Freedom," which is mainly but not exclusively Afghanistan, is 5188 through March 2010, while the total US wounded figure for "Operation Iraqi Freedom" through March 2010 is 31716. That suggests the total U.S. "wounded" from the two wars is 36904, about 7.3% of the VA figure, which covers a slightly shorter period.
If for comparison to the VA figures, we just take the icasualties.org figures through September 30, 2009, that gives 31513 wounded for Iraq, 4174 wounded for OEF, for a total of 35687 wounded. 35687 is 7.02% of the VA figure of 508,152. So it appears that the DoD "wounded" figure is about 7% of the figure of vets who have been treated at the VA.
Of course the two figures are measuring something different. But it does suggest that using the DoD figure to capture "wounded" in press reports gives a misleadingly small sense to the reader.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily impinge on using the DoD figures to establish trends, by comparing time periods. So for example this AP story pointed out that the number of wounded in Afghanistan has more than tripled in 2010 compared to the same period last year, using the DoD figures.
The DoD/icasualties.org wounded figures for OEF (mainly Afghanistan) are here.
The DoD/icasualties.org wounded figures for Iraq are here.
There's nothing amazing about having a much larger number of folks receiving disability than got Purple Hearts. ~One third of military women were raped, some of whom apply for disability. Guns make noise enough to deafen you, as they did me. Breathing air from burn pits messes with your lungs as does sand dust. Killing people messes with ~one third of minds to be clinical. Some portion of them are qualify for disability. Several folks in my unit got in a pinch point or between large equipment bled and lost pieces parts, disability, no medal.
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