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Phil Gunby

JAMA. 2000;283:2780.

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A supplement to Military Medicine (2000;165:1-48), published by the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Bethesda, Md, discusses medical aspects of the urban firefight between US forces and Somalis on October 3 and 4, 1993. Robert Mabry, who was a fourth-year medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda when the workshop was conducted at a Special Operations Medical Association meeting, had been an enlisted medic in the battle, during which 19 Americans were killed and 108 wounded.

He recalled: "The estimates of Somali dead ranged from 350 to 500, with up to 1000 wounded. This action represents the largest, most intense firefight for US forces since Vietnam and has had a lasting effect on US foreign policy in the conduct of operations other than war."

Concluding the workshop, Frank K. Butler, Jr, MD, a US Navy captain, noted three objectives . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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