When it's hot, it's hot...heat injury

Erap is as crooked as they come, but well loved.
He collapsed but it was "only" heat exhaustion, not a heart attack.
The heat here has been terrible, and it will continue that way until the rains arrive next month.
Thank God for Air conditioning.

being overweight and out of shape make you more prone to heat stroke/exhaustion and also certain medicines and not drinking enough water/fluids.LINK

When I was PA NG, our unit, from the mountains of Pennsylvania, went to Southern VA (CampAPHill) for our two weeks in early June. In our mountains, it rarely hits 90, and then usually only in August. But in Southern Virginia, it was 90-100 degrees.
We had a lot of heat exhaustion, and two or three heat strokes. Luckily no one died.

That's why I'm so annoyed at desk jockies who keep saying the US should have waited "a couple more months" to invade Iraq. Yup. The troops would have been "aclimatized" but very uncomfortable...and YOU try fighting a war in 100 heat wearing a flack jacket and MOPP gear.
( US generals thought that chemical weapons would be used). We would have lost thousands to the heat alone. And THAT would have been Bush's fault for waiting so long while trying to rely on a toothless UN.

But you know, there is a dearth of good statistics on such things. Oh, the left wing sites are full of laments, but for some reason sites that call killers who kill civilians as mosques as "insurgents" or are "ain't it awful screeds by moonbats might not quite be accurate.

Little was on google. Ditto for Medline.
And, with a Philippine webserver, I can't log into the DOD website.

So how may deaths and casualties from heat in OIF(Iraq)?

Well, Heat injury is a NonCombat injury, as opposed to combat injuries and illnesses. So it's on the list with other "accidents".
...THIS shows only 499 "non hostile" deaths...but most are MVA...only 47 fit to the other injury category.
PDF
from March 03 to April 06
TOTAL HOSTILE DEATHS 1,822
Accident 246
Illness 47
Homicide 11
Self-Inflicted 69
Undetermined 3
Pending** 21
TOTAL NON-HOSTILE DEATHS 503
TOTAL DEATHS 2,325
Wounded - Returned to Duty Within 72 Hrs 9,454
Wounded - Not Returned to Duty Within 72 Hrs 8,015
TOTAL WOUNDED - NOT MORTAL 17,469

LINK suggests a fairly high casualty (i.e. injury and illness) number needing evacuation to a better hospital.
According to the Department of Defense (DOD), a total of 17,222 individuals were
medically evacuated from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) from March 19, 2003, to
September 30, 2004. Another 2,721 individuals were medically evacuated during the
following three months, for a total of 19,943 individuals who were medically evacuated
between March 19, 2003, and December 31, 2004.
A table shows 21% were "non battle injuries".(interestingly enough 61% were for disease).
LINK

So how many heat stroke injuries and deaths were there in OIF? Hello, google?
Here is one interesting article, by a speech pathologist. LINK
It is about treating soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Now, what most people don't know is that speech pathologists are the ones who train people to eat. So they train people with neck injuries and brain injuries not only to talk but to swallow.
Their statistics are from Sept 2003.
WRAMC treated 1500 casualties, the speech therapists treated 47, and only one was from "heat stroke/seizure".
Hmmm.
Wounded in action table:.up to June 2005. 13,000 from hostile fire.

This is a random survey that tries to estimate how many people were treated for anything. Many were minor things or temporary illnesse. HERE
Iraq or Afghanistan during 2003–2004. Among 15,459 persons surveyed, diarrhea (76.8% in Iraq and 54.4% in Afghanistan), respiratory illness (69.1%), non-combat injuries (34.7%), and leishmaniasis (2.1%) were commonly reported. For all causes, 25.2% reported that they required intravenous fluids, 10.4% required hospitalization, and 5.2% required medical evacuation. Among ground units, 12.7% reported that they missed a patrol because of illness, and among air units, 11.7% were grounded because of illness.
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Summary: There were deaths from heat injuries in OIF. There were casulaties.
They were fewer than one expected.
AND it's hard to find non biased information on the internet.
Suggestions?