What you Can't learn from liars such as gonerail!
Read for yourself - http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdf
“Gulf War Mortality Data.” Please contact VHA’s Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards for more information regarding Gulf War mortality data.The GWVIS statistical reports, containing death counts, do not constitute a Gulf War veteran mortality study.
Here are the meaning of the numbers you so blindly follow off the cliff. Liar!
Now for definitions on how to read the info. Liar!Category - Conflict -Theater -Deployed -Era -Total
Veteran Deaths- 13,517 -4,330 -17,847 -55,999 -73,846
Conflict is a subset of Deployed. Conflict identifies active duty service members deployed to Southwest
Asia during the Gulf War, from August 2, 1990, through July 31, 1991. This includes Active Duty as
well as Activated Reserve Forces.
Limitations: The initial Gulf War air campaign began on January 17, 1991, and it lasted through
February 28, 1991. The Gulf War ground invasion into Iraq and Kuwait began February 24, 1991, and it
stopped on February 28, 1991. VA defines the Southwest Asia theater as Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
the neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the
Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the airspace above
these locations
Theater is a subset of Deployed. Theater identifies active duty service members who deployed to
Southwest Asia during the Gulf War from August 1, 1991, until the present. This includes Active Duty
as well as Activated Reserve Forces. Service members who served in both the Conflict and the Theater
time periods are reported only under Conflict.
Limitations: VA defines the Southwest Asia theater as Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the neutral zone
between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the
Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the airspace above these locations.
Deployed identifies active duty service members who served at least one day in the Southwest Asia
theater of operations from August 2, 1990, through the present. VA uses the period from August 2,
1990, to the present to identify service members deployed to the Southwest Asia theater of operations
who are potentially eligible for additional VA benefits (such as undiagnosed illness compensation).
Deployed includes Activated Reserve Forces. Deployed equals the sum of the Conflict and Theater
categories.
Limitations: VA defines the Southwest Asia theater as Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the neutral zone
between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the
Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the airspace above these locations.
Era identifies service members who did not deploy to the Gulf War. This includes Active Duty,
Activated Reserve Forces, and Non-Activated Reserve Forces.
Why not read the report before you submit your fabricated assumptions on a report that you have failed to read. If you had read the report then you are outright lying in your statements to this board.
Gulf War Mortality Data
1990 - 1997
This report, supplied by VHA, shows death rates from 1990 to 1997 of US Gulf War veterans deployed
to the Gulf War region before March 1, 1991 compared to non-Gulf War veterans over the same period.
This study compared the mortality among the 621,902 Gulf War veterans who served at least one day during Operations
Desert Shield and Desert Storm (those arriving in the Southwest Asia theater of operations after August 2, 1990, but
before March 1, 1991) to the mortality among 746,248 non-Gulf War veterans who served during this conflict but were
not deployed to this area, and includes Active Duty, and activated Reserve Forces.
The Southwest Asia theater of operations is as defined by DoD’s Defense Manpower Data Center.
Non-Gulf War veterans used for comparison in this study were service members who served during this period but did
not deploy to the Southwest Asia theater of operations, and includes Active Duty, and activated Reserve Forces (from
“Mortality among US Veterans of the Persian Gulf War: 7-Year Follow-up,” Kang, Han K., and Tim A. Bullman,
American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001, 154(5): 399-405).
This study by the Department of Veterans Affairs is still ongoing.
Veteran Deaths
Identifies deceased veterans reported only in VBA’s Compensation and Pension Master Record (CPMR)
and the Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS).
Limitations: These counts reflect raw data that have not been subjected to any statistical analysis nor
adjusted in any way to make it a mortality study. There has been no adjustment to account for age,
gender, race, and other items required for a valid mortality study. In addition, the data will not reflect
deaths reported after April 2007. The use of these data to draw conclusions regarding mortality rates
will result in inaccurate conclusions. For analysis of Gulf War veteran mortality, see “Mortality among
US Veterans of the Persian Gulf War: 7-Year Follow-up,” Han K. Kang and Tim A. Bullman, American
Journal of Epidemiology, 2001, 154(5): 399-405.