Wartime troop brain injures could reach 360,000

[babsbunny]

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By PAULINE JELINEK
Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of U.S. troops who have suffered wartime brain injuries may be as high as 360,000 and could cast more attention on such injuries among civilians, Defense Department doctors said Wednesday.

The estimate of the number injured - the vast majority of them suffering concussions - represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where blast injuries are common from roadside bombs and other explosives, the doctors said.

The estimate came in a Pentagon news conference on activities planned this month to bring attention to brain injuries. The doctors said the number could be as low as 180,000, based on estimates that between 10 percent and 20 percent of troops might have received such injuries.

[MrPerson]

1. Shit Fucking Shit. Can we leave now?

[indepat]

2. What's 360,000 running around with brain injuries (all severe and an uncountable number

of those most severe) compared to the fruits 'pukes gained through culmination of their RW PNAC wet-dream in Iraq. Those 360,000 brain injuries mean nary a whit to anyone who was a part in making it happen, supported them, aided and abetted them, or shilled for them: nary a whit, it never entered their mind, was never considered in the calculus, for they were willing to pay whatever the price. :P