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Robert L. Turk, MD
Santee, Calif

JAMA. 1984;251(4):468.

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To the Editor.—

I do not doubt the enthusiastic advocacy by Baxt and Moody¹ of rotocraft for emergency evacuation, but I question their figures. If mortality in Vietnam was "one death per 100 casualties," then we had 5,400,000 casualties. Likewise, the Korean War had 1,600,000 and World War II, 6,666,666. Even knowing the propensity of the military (all sides) to understate losses, I find these figures rather high.

The best arguments for helicopters are our unbounded wealth and our willingness to spend it in this use. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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