Dec 25, 2007 17:01
16 yrs ago
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English term
casualties
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By 2007, MONUC had 21,292 staff members in Congo, most of them military contingents, and had suffered 81 casualties.
Without further details, would you say the word "casualties" means "dead people" or "wounded and dead people"?
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Without further details, would you say the word "casualties" means "dead people" or "wounded and dead people"?
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Responses
| 4 +8 | personnel unable to fulfil their duties |
Kim Metzger
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| 4 +2 | killed or in injured |
salavat
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| 3 | human losses |
Kirill Semenov
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Responses
+8
2 mins
Kim Metzger
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personnel unable to fulfil their duties
A casualty is a member of personnel unable to fulfil their duties within a military organisation due to death or incapacitation by injury or illness.
http://www.army-technology.com/glossary/casualty.html
http://www.army-technology.com/glossary/casualty.html
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+2
4 mins
killed or in injured
Casualty (person), a person who is killed, or injured, in a war or disaster
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4 mins
Kirill Semenov
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human losses
I think it's about lost human lives...
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Note added at 5 mins (2007-12-25 17:06:40 GMT)
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casualties usually means KIA.
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Note added at 5 mins (2007-12-25 17:06:40 GMT)
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casualties usually means KIA.
Peer comment(s):
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Michael Powers (PhD)
: After researching this term more, I found out that although quite often it means "dead" it also refers to soldiers that desert, and those that are incapacited mentally or physically - I made the common mistake that many others make - Mike :)
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thank you Michael - and happy holidays :)
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| disagree |
Kim Metzger
: Casualty - Any person who is lost to the organization by reasons of having been declared dead, missing, captured, interned, wounded, injured, or seriously ill. http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/NETGLOSS.HTM
36 mins
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| agree |
Andrey Belousov (X)
: Bullshit/ Never mind, Kirill, he's a casualty/ That's what was meant here/
2 hrs
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