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Comment by missedthecue

21 hours ago

There's plenty of things to say about the waste and pointlessness of the GWOT.

But there were never enough deployments to justify these levels of disability claims. And not every person deployed goes into combat. And not every person that goes into combat becomes disabled. A rise was predictable. 30% simply implies a lot of a dishonesty.

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