Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 September 8

= September 8 =

Danger of fighting in Afghanistan or Iraq for US infantrymen
Using WW2 as a reference, are there any figures for comparing the rates of fatalities for, say, every 1,000 infantryman years in these conflicts? Muzzleflash (talk) 01:21, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * "The survival rates were 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan, compared with 86.5% in Vietnam". Still looking for comparable WWII stats.  Alansplodge (talk) 14:57, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Those survival rates of 90.2% in Iraq and 91.6% in Afghanistan are the proportion of wounded personnel who survived. -- ToE 00:35, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Quite right ToE, I stand corrected. Alansplodge (talk) 12:46, 10 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Ref: -- Only includes actual "wars" (not war-like "operations" such as Operation Enduring Freedom) —107.15.157.44 (talk) 18:15, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Not surprisingly, the American Civil War was by far the worst. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:29, 9 September 2018 (UTC)