10,000 wounds: Afghan war injuries hit 10K+ as UK veteran trauma remains rife…(All For Nothing…)
RT.com
26 Feb, 2016
More than 10,000 physical wounds were sustained by British military personnel during the Afghan war, as psychological injury remains rife among UK veterans who have returned home.
The grim statistics were released Thursday, having been assembled in a report by the Defense Statistics branch of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
They were compiled by the UK’s cutting-edge military field hospital, which operated in the war-torn state between April 2006 and 2014. The year 2014 marked the official end of Britain’s combat role there, codenamed Operation Herrick.
Physical injuries
Field hospital admissions from the period show that 10,371 injuries were sustained by 1,982 personnel. In each of these cases, the injuries were deemed serious enough to warrant the activation of a specialist trauma team.
“The 1,982 UK Service Personnel who were admitted to the field hospital with injuries that required the activation of the UK trauma team sustained 10,371 separate injuries,” the report says.
“The majority of UK Service Personnel sustained four or less injuries (58 percent), the most frequent number of injuries sustained was one injury (21 percent of all UK Service Personnel).”
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