Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Russian Army Medical Service is Apparently Hideous

According to an article in Forbes, the Russian Army has had 2,000 soldiers killed and 3,200 disabled as a result of fighting in the Ukraine. - (H/T)

Outside of the failure of the Russians to keep the numbers secret (which they have tried to do), notice the ratio of invalids to killed: 1.6 to 1.

Direct comparisons may be hard to make, because it's not known how the Russians classify a casualty as an invalid.

But the Iraq and Afghan wars have claimed over 6,800 servicemen and women. The DoD claims over 35,000 were wounded. Almost a million have registered disability claims with the VA. That's out of a total of 2.5 million who served. Keep in mind that some of them made multiple deployments, as many as five times, which was almost unheard-of during Vietnam.

Chances also are that the VA will pay benefits when the Russian analogue will say "walk it off, tovarisch."

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

That's why they still use conscripts... Cannon fodder...

Anonymous said...

We used "conscripts" during Vietnam. One of the reasons that people didn't deploy that often. Of course that's what gave the draft a bad name...

We also used "conscripts" to fight WWII. Pretty important that we won that one. At least from my point of view.

As far as I can tell, the Brits still have a draft available to them. The IDF is currently in the process of revoking "conscientious objector status" from a whole section of the conservative community - to basically expand the draft. Not so sure about the rest of Europe, but the Swiss take service seriously. (I think, similar to the IDF, everyone - men anyway - serve 2 years and are then in the militia. Which is why as a country Switzerland is so heavily armed. Most homes include at least one fully-automatic battle rifle.)

Unknown said...

I wonder how the oligarch-funded Nazi Azov and other Ukrainian militias treat their wounded?