COMPARISONS OF CASUALTY PRESENTATION AND ADMISSION RATES DURING VARIOUS COMBAT OPERATIONS

Daily causalty rates were analyzed and compared for four ground operat ions: Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam, and the Falklands. Daily admission rate s of wounded-in-action (WIA) for combat troops ranged from 1.61 to 5.5 4 per 1,000 strength. The killed-in-action rates of combat troops rang ed from 0.2 to 1.35. Support troop WIA admission rates ranged from 0.0 5 to 0.43 per 1,000 strength per day. Among wounded combat troops, the mean number of sick days before return to duty were 4.3 and 5.1 days for two different operations.