# gulf war veterans dying? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-war-veterans-dying/151831 "2003-01-31T07:25:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@andres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andres)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-war-veterans-dying/151831/1 "2003-01-31T07:25:03Z")
“As of May 1998, approximately 5,425 veterans (0.78%) out of 697,000 participants in the Gulf War had died. The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) obtained this number by comparing lists of all Gulf War veterans with files of deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration. A similar comparison disclosed that, of the 2,372,327 members of the active duty force and the selective reserve who did not deploy to the Gulf, 19,475 (0.82%) had died. No information on cause of death was available from this data search.” Will the same thing happen in a new confrontation with Iraq? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-war-veterans-dying/151831/2 "2003-01-31T12:33:36Z")
Moved to a more appropriate forum… ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gulf-war-veterans-dying/151831/3 "2003-01-31T12:48:35Z")
OK, now I see that you have posted this elsewhere, at [gulf war veterans dying?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=159768) Once is enough – cross-posting is frowned upon here.