For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.