Soldiers' Voices: "I can do anything"

Started by neoteny, Sep 10, 2011, 11:53 AM

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Statistics could help with this question: what is the ratio of US men & women in Afghanistan to how many of them are killed/wounded. I don't have the data (and it might even surprise us), but this is a case where plain numbers would say a lot.

Hungarians lost six soldiers in Afghanistan, two of them women (I don't have data regarding the ratio of the sexes in the Hungarian contingent in Afghanistan).
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in conflicts like a-stan, though, do you think there really is a "front" or "rear" so to speak? especially afghanistan, cuz those people have been doing guerilla warfare since alexander the great.


There is, more or less.  Certain areas are far more dangerous than others, with bases being relatively safe.  You'll get indirect fire (mortars) from time to time at Kandahar, for instance, but it's not like you're under constant threat of being sniped on your way to Tim Hortons in the Canadian part of base.

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Statistics could help with this question: what is the ratio of US men & women in Afghanistan to how many of them are killed/wounded


I don't know the specifics about afganistan but in the USAF in the 90's there was about a 20 to 1 male to female ratio.....and the USAF had the highest percentage of woman over all the other forces by nearly double the next on the list (Navy)

I doubt those numbers have changed much in the last 20 years.
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