Guard, Reserve Death Toll Rising in Iraq

[Barrett808]

Guard, Reserve Death Toll Rising in Iraq
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON - In the first week of June, nine of the 13 announced U.S. troop deaths in Iraq were National Guard or Reserve soldiers, an extraordinarily high toll on part-time troops.

The ninth was announced Tuesday: Sgt. Jamie A. Gray, 29, of Montpelier, Vt., who died June 7 in Scania, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by one of the war's most frequent killers, the blast from a homemade bomb.

Gray was assigned to the Vermont National Guard's 1st Battalion, 86th Field Artillery, based at Williston. He was the third Vermont National Guardsman to die in Iraq; the two others, also with the 1st Battalion of the 86th Field Artillery, were killed in a May 25 mortar attack.

The death toll among National Guard and Reserve soldiers has been climbing in recent months, and the pace of casualties so far this month has been the highest of the war. May had the largest number of Guard and Reserve deaths in Iraq, 22 of the month's 80 total U.S. troop deaths.

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[stickdog]

1. Just one weekend a month, two weeks out of the year and

50 casualties a week!

[saigon68]

2. No one in My family is going to join anything

Its an Immoral Oily WAR, we are opting out--- The Chimp and Halliburton can go fuck themselves.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. I'm with you, '68.

[saigon68]

7. A lot of Vets feel this way.

None of my kids are going to join anything-- we are watching.

[Lars39]

3. "announced deaths" ??????

Does that mean there are deaths they are not announcing? :(

[mike1963]

5. They're only "mostly dead".......

:grr:

[saigon68]

6. In a couple of days once the Peterson trial gets the headlines

Kobe coming up soon.