[RyanHolliday]

Isn't it possible that this is why it comes out of the military industrial machine? Surely a lot of advances in trauma treatment, bandages, surgery, and all kinds of other medical advances have come from the military industrial machine as well.

I don't see the need to politicize this, and I don't think the numbers associated with the wars would be little known to people here.

[jokermatt999]

Indeed. If you watch Dean Kamen's TED Talk, he says that's part of why he created it. It's not to justify sending soldiers to lose their limbs, it's to help those that already have. He showed a lot of respect and ...sadness, I guess for the soldiers who had lost their limbs, and genuinely seemed to want to help.