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Monday, April 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Injured troops shipped back into battle

Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, April 9, 2007 07:13 AM

    To do what?

    How many rifle humping grunts are there? Support operations are at least as large. Seems that all those injured troops could count socks, type and whatnot. Not everyone is a steely eyed killer you know. And if those cases could be sent to do administrative/support duty then is that so bad?

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