Thread: GI’s gear costs 100 times more than in WWII
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Old 10-03-2007, 09:24 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by gunnut View Post
GI deaths 100 times more in WWII

400,000 to 4,000 in around 4 years of fighting

Our tax dollars at work. Which I think is a fair trade.
Gunnut,

Sorry, but you're comparing apples and oranges. You'd have to compare ratios of soldiers killed relative to the the numbers of soldiers deployed. I don't have the time to run the numbers, but you're not going to find that a GI was 100 times more likely as a percentage of GIs deployed to get killed in WWII.
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