During the Vietnam War, only 75% of those injured in combat made it home alive; roll forward to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that number had risen to 92%. The combination of better body armour and advances in battlefield medicine means that today, wounds that once would have proved fatal, no longer do, but while wounded soldiers now enjoy better survival rates than at any time in history, there is a flip-side to the statistics. War-fighters lives are being saved, but they are increasingly being left with life-changing disabilities.

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