Post the link. Maybe it’s true. But not a lot of fighting has been going on in the last couple of years. Most operations that do take place will be SOF. So then any casualty would be a “SOF casualty”.

I will say this. I have never met a GB that didn’t have a guy from his graduating class die within the first year of donning their berets. There seems to always be one if not more before you hit one year ODA time. (Either accidental or combat, hopefully this trend ends soon).

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/special-operators-account-for-half-of-all-us-combat-casualties/#:~:text=Special%20operations%20units%20continue%20to,of%20all%20U.S.%20combat%20casualties.

Here's the original article with excerpt

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32039975/

Here's also a publication that states the deaths from 2001 to 2018 were 369

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Thank you for your anecdote. I really appreciate your input.