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Was just taking a look at this myself,

While I was in DEP my Station Commander asked me to put together a little document that the recruiters could use to overcome the common objection that a mother would give when her son was thinking of enlisting.

"I WILL NOT allow my son to go and get killed in Iraq and no way in hell he's enlisting 11B - Their the ones who die"

I used a few sources but one was the same as the OPs

I couldn't find the whole document, but here's part of the excel document with some interesting tooth to tail stats versus casualty percentages. Not a full statistical representation at all. But interesting stuff all the same.

One interesting point is that ALOT of parents had a poor idea of the risk of being a Combat Soldier due to Hollywood's continual depiction of extremely high casualty rates.

I remember watching Tour of Duty with the old man when I was a kid and thinking "Shit every contact some guys getting killed" in reality you where seeing something like a 1:50 death ratio and 1:20 hospitalized wounded ratio.

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