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    [OC] US Military Deaths in Vietnam War by State, per 100k population. 1956-1998.
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    [OC] US Military Deaths in Vietnam War by State, per 100k population. 1956-1998.

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    1. previousinnovation on

      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/)

    3. Expert-Economics8912 on

      Looks like draftees from West Virginia and Montana, presumably knowing how to shoot, were disproportionately selected for more dangerous infantry assignments?

    4. 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

    6. 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.

    7. thispartyrules on

      Advances in forensics let them declare a lot of missing troops for-sure deceased in the 90’s, they had lots of recovered bones and bone fragments but it was unclear whose remains they were until DNA tests let them verify.

    10. EquivalentCharge1240 on

      Hi Friend, it would be good to get a read on the uncertainty somehow. I can imagine smaller states will have larger uncertainty