Wounded and Dead Sometimes on same flights from Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

Interesting and "honest" story from Stars N' Stripes.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=22894

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The cargo bay on a C-141 can hold up to 103 stretchers. One crew carried 77 patients, the largest single load from Iraq, Brady said. But the number of patients does not define their workload, Brady said, it’s the extent of their injuries.

“We’re airlifting people’s sons and daughters, sometimes with parts of their bodies missing, parts of their souls missing,” Brady said.

Some have died before getting aloft. Others die in flight.

Weeks later, the team will see a face in a newspaper and know that one of their patients died in the hospital.

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Sometimes wounded troops are toward the front of the plane, while their dead comrades may be in the back. They keep them separated, but the troops know their fallen buddy is on the ride home.

[burrowowl]

1. Are those that die en-route

counted?
The wounded are they counted?
Are the souls counted?
“We’re airlifting people’s sons and daughters, sometimes with parts of their bodies missing, parts of their souls missing,” Brady said.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. No those that die en-route are not counted

They have to die on the ground or in the air in Iraq & it has to bee A DIRECT consequence of war (occupation)

The Pentagon likes it this way better PR

& no pics of the coffins god forbid we should have pics of those who gave their lives for bush's oil war

[izzie]

3. Iraq has turned out to be a bad photo-op for Bush's ads.

What a thing to do to get to be President of the US. Start a war. The man is mad.This is so sad. We had a women who lost her husband and after they had him buried, the govt. ask if she would like to have more parts they found. Now that will wake you up. Do we have one grave for the main part and a small one for the little parts? Get me out of OZ.