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Old 11-29-2006, 10:20 AM   #72
Happy Monkey
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Originally Posted by Ibram
There was an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the first 22 months of the war, and 2,112 deaths during that time. That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.
Bad math there. That gives a death rate of 720 per 100000 per year. Firearm death rate will be less, as a lot of it is done by bombs, but that wasn't provided in your numbers.
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