A wounded Afghan soldier was carried to an American medevac helicopter in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 7. Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesIn Wider War In Afghanistan, Survival Rate Of Wounded Rises -- New York Times
KHAKREZ DISTRICT, Afghanistan — Intensified fighting and a larger troop presence in Afghanistan in 2010 led to the highest American combat casualties yet in the war, as the number of troops wounded by bullets, shrapnel and bombs approached that of the bloodiest periods of the war in Iraq.
But the available data points to advances in the treatment of the fallen, as the rate at which wounded soldiers who died reached a wartime low.
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