Dying in Sleep in Iraq

[Atrail]

I was going through the casualties list and quite a few men of young age, just died in their sleep.

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examples.
A fellow soldier tried to wake Kinchen and noticed he was not breathing on August 9, 2003, in troop living quarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.

Died in Ramadi, Iraq, after a fellow soldier tried to wake him and noticed he was not breathing on August 12, 2003

Died in his sleep on August 8, 2003, in Camp Caldwell in Kirkush, Iraq. A fellow soldier tried to wake Bush and noticed he was not breathing.

Anyone have a clue if this is from exhaustion or what?
I don't hear to much bout young healthy people dying in their sleep.

 

[Savij]

Well, so far we've got 1 out of ~130K how does this compare to the death rate for young males in the US?

 

[Ness]

probably dehyrdation or heat

 

[CTho9305]

Wow, there's an absurd number of nonhostile / friendly-fire deaths :Q

 

[Hubris]

Probably has to do with the extreme climate, and/or dehydration/exhaustion. You take someone from, say, Alaska, or the Everglades of Florida (Lousiana, etc) and put them in desert heat and make them exert themselves heavily, some bodies are going to break under the strain.

 

[MadRat]

The flu and a staph infection from the states could just as easily be the culprit. Until the military gets information back from the CDC they will probably never know. Its not an alarming rate at all, considering we had similar numbers in Gulf War I.

 

[zimu]

nah, it's all a cover up.
we're just speeding up natural selection by ridding of the weaker soldiers so we can have the strongest army in the world ;-)