The Overloaded Poor Bloody Infantry

Think that most of the medivacs out of Afghanistan are becuase of IEDs or bullets?  Think again:

“Nearly 25 percent of medical evacs out of Afghanistan between 2004 and 2007 were for fractures, serious sprains and other musculoskeletal injuries, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in January in the British medical Journal, Lancet. Combat wounds added up to about 14 percent.“

Read the rest of the story on Military.com

This photo is actually a soldier of the 173rd Airborne in northern Iraq –

but it illustrates the point perfectly.