Originally Posted by crockett

Those are only stats from troops stationed in the middle east. We have troops all over the globe num nuts..


From 1990 through
2011, there were 29,213 deaths of U.S. military members while on active duty
(crude overall mortality rate: 71.5 per 100,000 person-years). Th e most deaths
occurred in years when major combat operations were ongoing; from 2004 to
2007, war-related injuries accounted for approximately 40 percent of all deaths.
From 2000 to 2011, two-thirds of all deaths unrelated to war were caused by
transportation accidents (n=4,761; 37%), other accidents (n=1,358; 10%) and
suicides (n=2,634; 20%). From 2005 to 2011, the proportion of deaths due to
suicide increased sharply while the proportion due to transportation accidents
generally decreased; as a result in 2010 and 2011, suicides accounted for more
deaths of service members than transportation accidents.

As you can read here in the most active fighting times with both Iraq & Afghan wars going on, combat related deaths still only accounted for 40% of the total deaths of US military service members.

http://timemilitary.files.wordpress....-05-12msmr.pdf