It is a travesty that soldiers have to die. It’s even more of a travesty that soldiers have to die in lieu of the Chicken Hawks for whom they’re saving face. Worse, it seems that very few people, even the Chicken Hawks, seem to care how soldiers die.
After a soldier dies in a war zone, an obituary is posted, and there is a funeral with military honors. The soldier’s name or likeness may be placed on a plaque or some other place of remembrance.
Then what?
Deaths of Active Duty Personnel from 2006 to 2020
All the stats in this section are from this Congressional Research Service file. It is important to note that U.S. forces have occupied Afghanistan since 2001 and Iraq since 2003, but this report only begins to cover in 2006. You can see a summary of each U.S. Military operational death (as told by the Department of Defense, that is) here.
The number of deaths of American soldiers in Iraq from 2003 – 2005 is 2,181.
Since 2006, 17,645 soldiers on active duty have died around the world. About 2,060 of those deaths from Improvised Explosive Devices in war zones alone.
As always, the most staggering statistic could possibly the suicide number. Of all soldiers on active duty, 291 suicides have happened from 2006-2020 while overseas and 3,940 have happened stateside. Remember, this number doesn’t count any of the National Guard or Reserve on normal drilling status or any veterans.
It is a tough reality knowing that soldiers die in high numbers from non-combat events.
Comparatively, in 2006 Iraq alone, 34,452 Iraqi civilians died from the fighting, according to the U.N., but U.N. numbers are often denied by the Iraqi Government.
In other words, so many more non-U.S. civilians die in U.S. warmongering than U.S. soldiers. Every life can have a huge impact, and we should be just as concerned with each non-American life as we should be with each American life.
Always remember how Chicken Hawk Madeliene Albright said 500,000 children dying was worth it. Side note – If this isn’t the full clip, and if anyone can point us to where we can see the full episode of 60 Minutes, it would be greatly appreciated.
Does No One Care How THESE Soldiers Died?
Last week, a Specialist in the U.S. Army, Wyatt Xavier Moore of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Regiment, died of “natural causes” at the age of 21 in a Seattle hospital. It is supposedly from a non-COVID illness.
In May of 2020, First Sergeant John David Randolph Hilty died in a non-combat incident, also non-COVID related.
A second soldier also died in a non-combat incident in May. Infantryman Sergeant Christopher Wesley Curry was stationed in Ebril, Iraq, just as Hilty was.
The Military Times does have a section of their website that has each soldier that has been killed in the following operations:
- NATO Kosovo Force
- Operation Enduring Freedom
- Operation Freedom’s Sentinel
- Operation Inherent Resolve
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Operation New Dawn
- Operation Octave Shield
- Operation Odyssey Lightning
- Operation Spartan Shield
- U.S. Africa Command Operations
- U.S. Central Command Operations
If you want to give yourself a test, try to find information on a soldier who died in a non-combat related incident. Finding a concluded investigation from a non-combat related incident is difficult. Those may only come to light in high-profile cases unfortunately.
As far as Wyatt Xavier Moore, John David Randolph Hilty, and Christopher Wesley Curry, it seems as no one cares how these soldiers died. A soldier, Alexander Bliss Klass of Oregon, died recently on Indepenedance Day , July 4th, 2020. He died of a non-combat related incident.
Task and Purpose was told from the Pentagon when they asked for information of five non-combat related deaths that they all were still under investigation.
The list can go on for unexplained and unaccountable soldier deaths. Sometimes, I wonder how the soldier who died by electrocution in the pool on my base in Mosul was reported!
So Why Does No One Care How Soldiers Die?
Doesn’t it seem bothersome?
Any site that honors those that have died while deployed has information on how those who died in combat. Finding any information on those who died in a non-combat related incident is difficult. Why is this?
That information can be just as important to everyone. The fact that the Department of Defense can’t figure out how things happen more efficiently should have you questioning things.
All those who died while on convoys or on mission are mentioned, though. However, there are possibly accidents that happen during these missions. For example, there have been two rollover accidents that were fatal for Specialist Moore and Sergeant Bryan Mount.
Very few cover the whole story. How did these rollovers happen? Was it reckless driving or a bad turn choice? Were they ambushed? Did a part of a road collapse from under them?
If only the U.S. citizens knew the full stories of all the fallen soldiers who died in non-combat related incidents, maybe the Chicken Hawks wouldn’t have all of the wars they want. As long as the U.S. citizens, and maybe even the Chicken Hawks, don’t care how soldiers die, the dying will continue.
Or is it the soldiers who are suckers?
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