US injuries in Iraq

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

someone asked about US injuries in Iraq. Here's what MS SLATE's 
news summary reports today:
>USA Today's lead reminds that soldiers wounded in Iraq are
surviving at a higher rate than have Americans soldiers in other
recent wars, primarily because they have better body armor and
get quicker medical attention. The flip-side, says the paper, is
that the wounds tend to be more serious, since many of the
surviving soldiers would have died if they hadn't received such
quick care or hadn't had armor covering their vitals. According
to USAT's count, 1,609 soldiers have been wounded in Iraq--1,058
of them since May 1. <

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