Marines train on board an AAV-7 amphibious assault vehicle during an exercise last month on the Cumberland River. Fifteen Marines and one sailor were injured when their AAV-7 caught fire Sept. 13 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. (US Marine Corps/Jack Rigsby)
Orange County Register, Military.com: Military Injuries and Deaths Off the Battlefield Are Increasing
When Tamby Clawson and Chad Schmidt first saw their Marine son lying in a medically induced coma, breathing on a ventilator and covered in bandages in a burn unit hospital bed at UC San Diego Medical Center, they didn't recognize him.
"That was not our son lying there," said Schmidt, 45, of Gillette, Wyoming. "His face was burned and swollen. It was something you never want to see your kid involved in."
The shock was heightened by how and where the19-year-old was so severely injured: not in combat but during training at the Camp Pendleton base.
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WNU Editor: At least 56 service members have been killed or injured in non-combat incidents since the beginning of June. As for combat casualties .... 10 have been killed in combat operations during the same time (Honor the Fallen).
2 comments:
Any explanation yet as to WHY this increase? (it is an increase, I presume)
Are they counting those killed in the ship collisions? If so, it would be a bit unfair to call it an "increase". Even though it may have increased, it was due to a major accident. Of course there would be an increase.
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