The hidden cost of the Afghanistan war (Pt 1): Trauma
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The Old Meat Train in Medical Training
A platoons worth of british soldiers were either killed or wounded in thatin so the impact of that was huge. It was also the worst loss for the british army during the entire afghan campaign in a single incident. The memory of that still sort of pulls like a bit of a black hole in the minds of veterans from that battalion when they think about the tour and when they recount what happened.
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