Other Guard and Reserve soldiers received the newest M-16 rifles only when they left for Bosnia.
Rates of in-hospital mortality ranged from about 4percentt among patients who received the "newest" blood (1 to 19 days old) to 25percentt among those who received blood that had been stored for 31 to 42 days.
In addition, those who received the oldest blood stayed, on average, twice as long in the intensive care unit compared to those who received the newest blood.
And of the roughly 250 patients who have received the newest version of the transplant, more than 80% have been free from insulin shots or insulin pumps for more than a year.
These divisions often received the newest small-arms, but were deficient in artillery and motorization, severely limiting their tactical usefulness.
Republican Guard units normally received the newest equipment; for example, most of the estimated 1,000 T-72 tanks in the Iraqi Army on the eve of the war were in Republican Guard divisions.
