He decided that as military units in combat suffered attrition through death, wounds, illness or other causes, the missing personnel would be replaced individually, one at a time.
Some of those returning from combat zones suffer from depression, trauma and post-traumatic stress.
We know combat veterans suffer from stressful conditions that can last years, and we need to help them.
A CAR can be a lethal weapon, a soldier in combat can suffer grave consequences, getting married and raising children can be a serious matter, and voting for politicians can change the nation.
He makes the provocative, but plausible, observation that one of the reasons American combat veterans suffer such high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is because they find it difficult to separate out the harm of war from its pleasures.
The violence came as the U.S. military reported that a Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died from combat wounds suffered in the turbulent western province of Anbar.
The latest casualties bring to 18 the number of combat deaths suffered by United States forces in Afghanistan since October 2001.
The general led troops into combat personally, suffered serious wounds and was known to declare: "If we die, we die together.
Finally, after the dreadful 1944 winter, when 45,000 American combat troops suffered trench foot, and the Battle of the Bulge, where a German counteroffensive resulted in 19,000 Americans killed, an Allied victory seemed certain.
The devices, known as explosively formed penetrators, were used to carry out 99 attacks last month and accounted for a third of the combat deaths suffered by the American-led forces, according to American military officials.
