Jun 25 2007
non-combat related incident
NPR weekend edition Saturday listed the US soldiers reported killed in Iraq ending with this statistic: “one soldier died in a non-combat related incident“. Non-combat related incident? is this a euphemism for one or more of the following:
- old age
- cancer
- accident
- friendly fire
- murder
It’s the first time I’ve heard this lengthy phrase to describe a death. When civilian deaths are reported the news normally includes some comment that indicates the circumstances by describing where body was found, in a wrecked car on the Interstate, a burn’t house, on the Green river bank.
non-combat related incident
