Texas paying heavy price in troops, casualties | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "As the nation commemorates the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war, a convincing argument can be made that Texas has contributed more troops and paid a higher price in blood than any other large state — and by a fairly wide margin.
More Texans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan than residents of any other state. Defense Department statistics list 160,100 active-duty service members and 23,161 National Guard troops and reservists from Texas deployed in the wars. No breakdown is available for the number of troops who have served in Iraq.
And of the 3,210 American service members killed in Iraq as of this weekend, 298 called Texas home. Of those, 69 lived in the Houston area.
That meant Texas had a death rate for its troops of 6.7 per half-million residents, far more on a per capita basis than other large states. California, the only state with a larger population than Texas, has a rate of 4.7 per 500,000, and New York, just behind Texas in population, lists its war death rate as 3.7 per 500,000."
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Now, were these residents of Texas in that they were born and/or lived in Texas prior to joining the military, or are they "residents" of Texas in that they were stationed at and deployed from a military post in Texas, such as Ft. Hood or Ft. Sam Houston?
Good question. The article says they "called Texas home," for what that's worth.
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