# total death in U.S. military from accidents worldwide

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 1, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-death-in-u-s-military-from-accidents-worldwide/337988 "2006-01-01T20:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lynwood\_Slim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Lynwood\_Slim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynwood_Slim)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-death-in-u-s-military-from-accidents-worldwide/337988/1 "2006-01-01T20:42:13Z")

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I am trying to find out how many U.S. military die in accidents worldwide. It is not hard to get figures for Afghanistan and Iraq theaters, but I am interested in all accidents, e.g., including CONUS. Anybody know where I can get this info?

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**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-death-in-u-s-military-from-accidents-worldwide/337988/2 "2006-01-01T21:34:40Z")

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[US Active Duty Military deaths - 1980-2004](http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/Death_Rates.pdf) (Warning - .pdf file!)  
That .pdf file includes deaths from accidents.

From here:[http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm](http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm)

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**Author:** ![Lynwood\_Slim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Lynwood\_Slim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynwood_Slim)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-death-in-u-s-military-from-accidents-worldwide/337988/3 "2006-01-02T23:07:17Z")

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> [@Scruloose](#):
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> [US Active Duty Military deaths - 1980-2004](http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/Death_Rates.pdf) (Warning - .pdf file!)  
> That .pdf file includes deaths from accidents.
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> From here:[http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm](http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm)

Thanks! I looked all over that website, but couldn’t find that page. I really appreciate it.

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-death-in-u-s-military-from-accidents-worldwide/337988/4 "2006-01-03T02:07:09Z")

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On a marginally related note, a couple years back the bulletin board in the Air Force hallway of the Military Science building at A&M had a memo from the Inspector General to “All Personel” requesting that airmen with extensive experience riding motorcycles take younger motorcycle-riding airmen under their wing, due to a recent rise in motorcycle related deaths of Air Force personel. I thought it was a rather interesting bit of paperwork since it never occured to me that folks like the IG issued orders (or suggestions, as the case may be) on such things.