It’s one of the most common and devastating wounds of modern warfare. It also happens to be the one injury that neither active-duty troops nor veterans want to talk about.

Damage to or loss of a soldier’s genitals is something every man in a combat zone thinks about. And with good reason.

According to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry, at least 1,367 men in the United States military suffered genital-urinary injuries in Iraq or Afghanistan from 2001 to 2013.

Some of these men lost all or part of their penis.
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