The elites using the everyman as cannon fodder. Always the case.
Expert-Economics8912 on
Looks like draftees from West Virginia and Montana, presumably knowing how to shoot, were disproportionately selected for more dangerous infantry assignments?
leonprimrose on
I actually wonder what the average education and enlistment status is between states for this same time for those drafted or voluntarily enlisting was too. I imagine certain education levels and/or whether or not you got drafted vs signing up yourself affected your station and whether or not you were out to the front somewhat but I would be curious to know if it’s actually correlated or not
TXOgre09 on
Louisiana and Oklahoma difference is interesting to me
Granum22 on
Probably syncs up closely with poverty rates/average income. Since it’s total deaths in Vietnam the more likely a states citizens are to be drafted the more deaths they’d have per captia.
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An interesting chart from the source:
|Characteristic|(n=58,193)|
|:-|:-|
|Age in Years (median)|21|
|Men|100%*|
|White|86%|
|US Army|66%|
|US Marine Corps|25%|
|Enlisted Personnel|86%|
|Hostile death|81%|
|Ratio of Wounded to dead|2.6/1|
*8 military women died in Vietnam, but the source rounded up
The original source compared all of this data to data from the War in Iraq, but only from 2003 to 2008, so I chose to omit it.
[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2621124/](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2621124/)
The elites using the everyman as cannon fodder. Always the case.
Looks like draftees from West Virginia and Montana, presumably knowing how to shoot, were disproportionately selected for more dangerous infantry assignments?
I actually wonder what the average education and enlistment status is between states for this same time for those drafted or voluntarily enlisting was too. I imagine certain education levels and/or whether or not you got drafted vs signing up yourself affected your station and whether or not you were out to the front somewhat but I would be curious to know if it’s actually correlated or not
Louisiana and Oklahoma difference is interesting to me
Probably syncs up closely with poverty rates/average income. Since it’s total deaths in Vietnam the more likely a states citizens are to be drafted the more deaths they’d have per captia.