Did you know there were more active soldier deaths in the Clinton administration than in the Bush?
The post talked about DEATHS, not CASUALTIES. To give you an example, in 1994 there were 1075 deaths, none from hostile action nor ‘terror’. There were 544 accidental, 83 homocides, 206 due to illness, 232 suicides, and 10 undetermined. Out of total troop strength of 1,746,482. What the people should be counting is the number of casualties during combat / theater. View the document at http://www.murdoconline.net/pics/Death_Rates.pdf and see for yourself. **** From what I remember when I was in during that time, and reading the Navy Times regularly, there was on average ten to fifteen Navy active, reserve, and retiree deaths listed in weekly their “proceedings” columns simply due to old age, civilian accidents, training accidents, deployment/safety issues, service related injuries, etc… Consider there are considered to be five “military” services – Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy – with varying n
