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...starting figures are derived from several sources: satellite and aerial- reconnaissance photos, interrogation of prisoners of war, reports from spies and special forces operating behind enemy lines, historical ratios of what percentages of forces engaged have been killed or wounded in past battles. Actual counts of corpses in the gulf war were uncommon. Most dead Iraqis were buried hastily by their comrades before the ground war or by Saudi soldiers after it, with little or no tally...
...first jumpers in the U.S. practiced in the California Sierras, diving from bridges spanning river gorges. Since bridge jumping is illegal throughout the country, these aerial pioneers usually staged jumps early in the morning or late at night to evade local sheriffs, hustling their gear beneath wraps whenever headlights approached. In 1988, after a pair of California engineers opened a commercial -- but unlicensed -- jumping outfit near San Francisco, bungee madness began to catch on in America, following the lead of New Zealand, Australia and France. "The first time I jumped, I was terrified," admits Emily Trask, 25, a Denver financial...
...Many of those who were involved in ground combat or aerial raids will reel from the shock of having killed people. Such a reaction typically takes about six months to set in. But, advises John Stein, deputy director of the Washington-based National Organization for Victim Assistance, "for some, the dichotomy between horrific memories and the sense of triumph will strike them as being psychologically intolerable right from...
British troops encountered some Guard units as early as Monday night, destroying a third of their armor at the first blow with long-range artillery fire and aerial attack. Fighting between American troops and Guard units also began Monday and steadily intensified; by nightfall Monday a briefer reported one of the Guard's seven divisions in the area rendered "basically ineffective." The big battle raged all day Wednesday. Some allied officers reported that the Guard fought about as well as could have been expected of troops battling without air cover, with minimal, if any, communications and under relentless allied bombing...
...allied side, Schwarzkopf seemed right in terming the coalition's ability to achieve nearly total success with so few losses "almost miraculous." Not only were the pessimists and skeptics wrong, including all those who had said the aerial bombing was going badly, but the optimists were far off the mark too. American casualties were less than 5% of the lowest prewar Pentagon estimates. U.S. forces had prepared about 10,000 beds, aboard ships and in three field hospitals, to receive the wounded; only a tiny fraction were filled...