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Old 02-13-12, 01:45 PM   #111
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The US Army alone has lost almost four thousand people KIA during OIF. The Navy less than 200 and the Air Force less than that. Nobody should minimize those branches contribution or value to the success of the mission but let's be serious, the ground forces are a lot more dangerous jobs by far.
No war since WW2 has been a real naval war. Though the riverines would disagree, Vietnam wasn't a naval war.

As for the Air Force, in what other service do the enlisted men send their officers off to do the fighting?
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