As Chris Hunter outlines in his seminal account of life as an ATO in Iraq in Eight Lives Down, bomb disposal experts are also specifically targeted by bomb-makers who study their methods and strategies and look for potential weaknesses. For more information, please see our On average, the infantrymen in Vietnam spent about 240 days of combat in one year, while those who served during the second world war saw about 40 days of combat only, and that was in four years . Its dangerous enough to expose yourself to small-arms fire and IEDs when rushing to treat a wounded colleague, but when youve got a target on your back attached by enemy fighters who understand the psychological effects of taking out the only immediate means of life-saving treatment then things get a whole lot scarier. Life-expectancy of pilots during war | Key Aero Engineers are typically well compensated and have a high level of benefits, such as competitive salaries and comprehensive health and retirement plans. Furthermore, 85 percent of casualties in general were borne by the infantry. That meant that a battalion of 1,000 men might have 15 who experienced field punishment during the course of the war. Aside from the incendiary devices that they have to disarm, recover or destroy, they are also exposed to the same small-arms and IED threats as everybody else. But the figures can be easily misunderstood, as Gordon Corrigan points out in Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Everyone knows because it is endlessly repeated in newspapers, books and on radio and television that if the British dead of the First World War were to be instantly resurrected and then formed up and marched past the Cenotaph, the column would take four and half days to pass.. Its a long-established truth of war that an army is only as capable as the supply lines which feed it; therefore, vehicle convoys are an attractive and relatively easy target for enemy fighters.
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