Isn't this a disater, close to a "decimation" of fielded US troops, via casualty stats incurred by the total number of US troops who have served in Iraq?
....Consider figures this high, that don't even include wounded medivaced out of Iraq.....
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http://icasualties.org/oif_a/CasualtyTrends.htm
32,348 Total U.S. Iraq War Casualties Total Excludes Soldiers Who Required Evacuation by Medical Air Transport
with Non-Hostile Injuries and Illnesses as of 10/31/07 29,584
Total US Iraq War Casualties Plus Soldiers Evacuated: 61,932
3,859 Dead 28,489 Wounded
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How could they credibly say that "they didn't know" that enlistment bonus paybacks were being demanded by DOD, until the fifth year of this war?