20,802 US Soldiers Heavily Wounded
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Can anyone believe how dirty and dishonorable the US administration is? The official number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq that was announced by the US DOD (department of defense) is 8458 in Iraq and 423 in Afghanistan. Can anyone believe that the US military hospital at Germany (alone), the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, announced that 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in "Operations Iraqi Freedom" (occupying Iraq) and "Enduring Freedom" (occupying Afghanistan)....
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20,802 US Soldiers Heavily Wounded
Raed in the Middle
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November 24, 2004
believe it or not...
Can anyone believe how dirty and dishonorable the US administration is?
The official number of US soldiers wounded in Iraq that was announced by the US DOD (department of defense) is 8458 in Iraq ( http://icasualties.org/oif/ ) and 423 in Afghanistan ( http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html#methodology ).
Can anyone believe that the US military hospital at Germany (alone), the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, announced that 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in "Operations Iraqi Freedom" (occupying Iraq) and "Enduring Freedom" (occupying Afghanistan).
The interesting part of the news that I didn't find these numbers on AlJazeera (the No.1 enemy of Rumy and other little bush supporters). These Numbers were published by the well-known, Department of Defense-authorized daily newspaper distributed overseas for the U.S. military community, "Stars and Stripes": http://www.stripes.com/about/aboutstripes.html
More than 17,200 from these soldiers were injured in Iraq, and more than 3,000 were injured in Afghanistan as I read in a local newspaper: http://www.assabeel.net/
These numbers are just for the US soldiers that were moved to Germany. There are other thousands that were injured inside Iraq and Afghanistan and treated in small local military clinics and hospitals, or moved to other US military hospitals.
The official number of Us soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is 1375 and 144. I wonder what the real numbers are.
The small bush administration is re-identifying the meaning of "lies".
Posted by: Raed Jarrar
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=2567
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VA chief vows to work for the wounded
By Ben Murray, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, November 24, 2004
LANDSTUHL, Germany — Emerging from a meeting with injured troops at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ top official vowed Monday to work for the timely delivery of benefits to America’s "wounded heroes."
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi spent more than an hour meeting with about 20 troops at the hospital in a brief stop on his way to Thanksgiving in Afghanistan.
Afterward, he spoke about the need to take care of soldiers wounded in the war on terrorism. Principi said he was heartened by the morale of the troops recovering at Landstuhl, and would work "to make sure that the VA takes care of them" when they separate from the military.
But the VA faces a massive task in trying to quickly funnel health benefits to troops recently wounded or disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a letter to The Washington Post last month, Principi said his office receives more than 60,000 new benefits claims each month, and at any given time has more than 250,000 claims being processed.
The government’s second-largest agency also has come under fire for the amount of time it takes to process claims.
Working through the complicated separation and claims process can take months for separating troops, prompting the VA to expand its services in 2001 and begin its "seamless transition" initiative last year to streamline the VA processing procedure.
That initiative included efforts to improve communication between the VA and the Department of Defense, the addition of extra benefits counselors and internal VA moves to ensure that troops wounded in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom receive priority care.
"They’ve earned those benefits, and I want to ensure they get them," Principi said.
The VA’s 2001 expansion of services has made a big difference to troops passing through the Landstuhl hospital, according to Jerl York, officer in charge for the seven-member VA staff at Landstuhl.
As of Tuesday, 20,802 troops have been treated at Landstuhl from injuries received in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.
York said that the predischarge program available at Landstuhl allows separating troops to work through the claims process while still in Germany, allowing them to circumvent most of the ponderous VA central claims system, based in Washington, D.C.
"In the States, processing can take up to a year," York said. But working through the Landstuhl program allows separating troops to receive benefits in as little as 60 to 100 days, he said.
"We can essentially write the award and the benefit starts flowing then," he said.
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