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Rich Wicks, I do respond and appreciate input from readers. The Vietnam statistics are 100% solid and originate with the US Army. Ukraine and Russian deaths and casualties are mysteries. I am not sure that Putin and Selenskyy know the true figures. I rely on Denys Davdov whom I have known for a long time. He is an airline pilot by profession in Ukraine. When the war started, he lost his airline job. The Ukraine Air Force declined him because he had no military experience. He reinvented himself as a podcaster reporting on Ukraine. You can find him on YouTube. Denys has over 500,000 subscribers, by the way. He spends his whole working day pouring through hundreds of Russian and Ukraine websites. He got the Russian KIA figure going through a backdoor. Someone in the Russian equivalent of our Department of Treasury got sloppy and released details on payments made to the families of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine. Denys does some brilliant research. In my writing career...
bloody war man, very bloody. and our government keeps encouraging it more and more, we fund it well. now i know how vietnam war protesters felt. they too were against a war and yet government didn’t care. life is gonna turn me into a government hating hippie one day if im not one yet.
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
bloody war man, very bloody. and our government keeps encouraging it more and more, we fund it well. now i know how vietnam war protesters felt. they too were against a war and yet government didn’t care. life is gonna turn me into a government hating hippie one day if im not one yet.
The boomer generation protested stupid wars when they were drafted, and the cheered on the stupid wars or Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya.
I once thought they had solid principles. They don't. We've been in 20 fucking solid years of war and now these same people are cheering on the Ukraine war, which very well may lead to World War 3. They're insane.
The boomer generation protested stupid wars when they were drafted
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
bloody war man, very bloody. and our government keeps encouraging it more and more, we fund it well. now i know how vietnam war protesters felt. they too were against a war and yet government didn’t care. life is gonna turn me into a government hating hippie one day if im not one yet.
The boomer generation protested stupid wars when they were drafted, and the cheered on the stupid wars or Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya.
I once thought they had solid principles. They don't. We've been in 20 fucking solid years of war and now these same people are cheering on the Ukraine war, which very well may lead to World War 3. They're insane.
The boomer generation protested stupid wars when they were drafted, and the cheered on the stupid wars or Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya
they arent bad man, its just media is a great manipulator
richwicks says
The boomer generation protested stupid wars when they were drafted, and the cheered on the stupid wars or Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya
Your generalizing based on an age range.
Onvacation says
Your generalizing based on an age range.
Yes, I know I am.
That's called prejudice.
By the way, which 'generation' does this represent?
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And 'richwicks' actually thinks that this 'generation' will have the fortitude to 'fix the ... government?' Really?
the boomer generation has really dropped the ball
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/retired-usmc-colonel-andy-milburn-surprisingly-tells-truth-ukraine/
richwicks says
the boomer generation has really dropped the ball
But they're not half as bad as the X and Y generation. Don't get me started with the millennials.
richwicks its funny andrew millburn is on linkedin advertising their war services in Ukraine. clearly has enough time for internet.
I have much more hope with the younger generations than the older one.
richwicks says
I got my start in real knowledge by my aunt - she's 80 now
Boomer?
By the time I hit college I didn't have time for it anyhow,
The last movie I saw in the theater was Stone's movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thirteen Days
I did watch Avatar 2 yesterday and that was entertaining. I’d call it a family film because the importance of family was the most recognizable theme to that movie. The promotion of traditional fatherhood was unite refreshing to see in a modern movie!
1) 9,087,000 served on active duty from 1964 to 1973.
2) 8,744,000 were on active duty from August 5, 1964, to March 28, 1973.
3) 3,403,100 men and women including 514,300 offshore personnel served in Vietnam.
4) 2,594,000 men and women served within the border of Vietnam from January 1, 1965, to March 28, 1973. 50,000 US troops served in Vietnam from 1960 to 1964.
5) Total deaths were 58,275. 47,528 men and women died due to hostile action. 10,747 died due to non-hostile actions.
6) 303,704 were wounded. 153,329 required hospitalizations.
7) 75,000 were severely disabled. 23,214 were 100% disabled. 5,283 lost limbs. 1,081 sustained multiple amputations. These disability figures were much higher than in World War II or Korea.
8) The kill rate percentage was 58,275/3,403,100=1.712%. 58,275/2,594,000=2.246%.
9) The wounded rate was 303,704/3,403,100=8.92%.
303,704/2,594,000=11.707%.
Combined statistics for dead and wounded:
58,275+303,704=361,979/3,403.100=10.63% 303,704/2,594,000=11.707%
361,979/2,594,000=13,954% This is not consistent with a model of 5% killed and wounded. There are 5.2 wounded for each man or woman killed. Please bear in mind that during this same time span some 3.25 million Vietnamese military personnel and civilians were killed. Accurate statistics on those wounded are hard to come by.
Now let us go forward to the current war in Ukraine. Accurate statistics on military killed and wounded in battle are hard to come by. Even elite US and European intelligence agencies have a difficult time getting accurate numbers. One of our readers, Denys Davydov spends a lot of time doing in-depth research to develop numbers. He goes to all sorts of obscure sources to get information. A picture emerges as follows:
Ukraine armed forces size: 204,000. Deaths for the last 10 months are roughly 100,000.
Russian military personnel in Ukraine: 200,000. Deaths for the last 10 months are roughly 100,000.
Casualties on both sides could range from 300,000 to 520,000. Massive replacements had to be found to take the place of those lost.
These losses are like those suffered during the Iran/Iraq war during the late 1980s and World War I.