  The numbers aren't easy to find and barely any match up. Here's an urlLink article that quotes the Air Force as saying 11,000 evacuees have come through Andrews Air Force Base. More than 11,000 medical evacuees have come through Andrews in the past nine months, the Air Force says. Most, we suspect, from Iraq. But that's 8,000 more than the Pentagon says have been wounded there.
Most of those wounded in action come through the vast Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. The American public is, for the most part, unaware that the true casualty count of the war in Iraq may actually be higher than official figures suggest. Here's another urlLink article that indicates a similar number but says the wounded came through Landstuhl, Germany. Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest hospital outside the U.S. for troops stationed in Europe and the Middle East. Some figures that have been briefly mentioned in the press fall in the range of two to three thousand.
But in a story that received little national attention, the Pentagon reported last month that the military made over 18,000 medical evacuations - representing 11,700 casualties in the first year of war in Iraq. As for Iraqi civilians, between 8,789 and 10,638 civilians have died since war began March 19, 2003, according to one group of British and American researchers that surveys media reports and eyewitness accounts. Let's hope for our US serviceman, as well as Iraqi civilians, sake this madness in Iraq ends before too many more human lives are lost. 
