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...Iraqi deaths, but the figures vary wildly, between 15,000 and 100,000. No one is sure of the number of Iraqis who have been wounded. Injured Iraqi soldiers remain in Iraq, but in addition to U.S. troops about 112 soldiers from 37 other coalition countries have been flown to Landstuhl for treatment. Every war mutilates in its own way, and Iraq is no different. Americans soldiers are surviving battles that still kill thousands in less well-equipped armies. Only 16% of American injuries in Iraq have been from bullets, according to Pentagon statistics. But the amputation rate of injured...
...women who pass through Landstuhl owe their lives to the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (ccatts), the flying intensive-care units that treat the troops as they are lifted from the battlefield by helicopter to a combat hospital within minutes of being hit. From there they are flown six-and-a-half hours to Landstuhl. "None of us have ever taken care of this large an amount of Americans injured in conflict," says Air Force Colonel Tyler Putnam, one of Landstuhl's trauma surgeons. "This is unlike anything we've ever experienced, or maybe will ever experience again." Few doubt...
...double act. On the one hand, they recognized that if the company was to grow to its full potential, it had to capture foreign markets. Basing himself in New York-when Sony opened its store on Fifth Avenue in 1962, it was the first time the Japanese flag had flown in the city since the war-Morita became the best-known Japanese businessman in the world, friends with the great and the good on three continents. But Morita came from a family of long-established sake brewers, and the company was also always careful to maintain its Japanese roots. Notwithstanding...
Many of these men and women owe their lives to the Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATs), the flying intensive-care units that treat the troops as they are lifted by helicopter within minutes from the kill zone to the combat hospital. From there they are flown 6 1/2 hours to the military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, which has evolved from a small backwater military hospital into a top-line trauma center...
...says his ex-wife has tried to demonize him in the children's eyes, with some success. Last year, without warning him, she and the children moved to a town several hours' drive from Sydney, throwing his every-second-weekend contact into jeopardy. Could the little girl be flown to Sydney sometimes to see her dad? Do the trips to Sydney tire her out? These are some of the questions the court is grappling with. Recently, Rob read in a school newsletter that his daughter had been made class captain. Great! - except that she was using her stepfather's surname...