Facts and Statistics

• To date more than 27,000 men and women have been wounded in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq
  
  
• As of March '07, 562 troops have lost limbs, over 100 of those have lost more than one limb. Unfortunately, these numbers will continue to rise.
  
  
• Roughly 90 percent of troops wounded in Iraq survive. In Vietnam, only 76 percent of the wounded survived.
  
  
• According to U.S Senate research, the amputation rate has doubled: 6% of those injured in Iraq have amputations compared with 3% in previous wars.
  
  
• Hundreds of soldiers have been severely burned, and some initial reports indicate that soldiers have suffered eye injuries at a rate far higher than any previous conflict.