So I did some math since I sometimes see people underestimate the casualties of Operation Iraqi Freedom.OIF saw 791,908 active duty Army & Marines deployed from 2003-2009, and Army & Marines alone took 3,388 hostile deaths.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK220068/https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oif/byCategoryThat means you had a 0.428% chance of being killed on Active Duty in Iraq.Vietnam saw 5,162,000 active duty Army & Marines deployed 1964-1973, and Army & Marines alone took 44,058 hostile deaths.https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/summaryData/casualties/principalWarshttps://www.uswings.com/about-us-wings/vietnam-war-facts/That means you had a 0.8535% chance of being killed on Active Duty in Vietnam.This is pretty surprising since I think the average person would see 3,388 killed compared to 44,058 killed and assume that the later was at least an order of magnitude deadlier, not twice.
>>64881011Now do injuries
>>64881011>That means you had a 0.428% chance of being killed on Active Duty in Iraq.This also changes wildly based on MOS
False: 44,058 > 3,388Throwing in the total deployed variable and calling it a day is just cherrypicking and oversimplifying.
>>64881011Alright but what about injurie rate? The typical grunt in Iraq had kevlar helmets and kevlar vests with sapi plates rated for rifle caliber fire while the grunt in Vietnam had steel helmets and ballistic nylon vest or fiberglass plates vest that in best case scenario could stop pistol rounds fired from a smg.You also did not count the airforce. Vietnam saw active aerial combat between US airplanes and North Vietnamese airplanes. Quite a few US pilots died in the sky or got captured after ejecting in Vietnam unlike Iraq.
>>64881053>Throwing in the total deployed variable and calling it a day is just cherrypicking and oversimplifying.No its not, total deployed is a good (and simple) metric to measure the chance of death in theater and is generally what people consider when calculating percentages for such. It can even be broken down by year and shit for even more accuracy.
>>64884315Nope, it introduces more variables. Think support/tip of spear ratio, engagements per time period etc. Your blanket statement is just dumb.
>>64881031yeah, this. more people survived injuries in iraq due to better armor and medicine and then government lied about them as well.
>>64881011>Vietnam saw 5,162,000 active duty Army & Marines deployed 1964-1973, and Army & Marines alone took 44,058 hostile deaths.From your own source:>2,709,918 Americans served in uniform in Vietnam.It's more like a quarter, not half.
>half as likely to die in iraq than in vietnamogey
>>64881053>false: a kilogram of steel weighs more than a kilogram of feathers
