• FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    basically means “unable to serve”. This includes dead, injured, captured, deserted etc.

    Ah, I didn’t know that. I now envision it sometimes going like:
    “Poor Steve, a casualty of war.”
    “What do you mean, he snuck back home and is watching TV in his mom’s basement!”