U.S. Daily Casualties 9/29/2004

[yelladawg]

U.S. Daily Casualties 9/29/2004


As of Tuesday, 1,051 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 798 died as a result of hostile action and 253 died of nonhostile causes. The figures include three military civilians.

The British military has reported 67 deaths; Italy, 19; Poland, 13; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, eight; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; the Netherlands, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary and Latvia have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 913 U.S. military members have died -- 689 as a result of hostile action and 224 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers as of Tuesday.

Since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 7,532 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.


No new American deaths were reported by the military. Two British soldiers died Tuesday in an ambush near the southern city of Basra.

The latest identifications reported by the Department of Defense:


Army Capt. Eric L. Allton, 34, Houston; died Sunday in Ramadi when he was struck by a mortar round; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Korea.

[lanparty]

1. They are putting the military on "standby" ...

... until the election. They have to make those messy dead bodies dissappeaar from the media.

The military commanders on the ground were pissed about being ordered OUT of Fallujah by Washington after Washington ordered them in. Talk about FLIP-FLOPPING!!!!!