Daily U.S. Casualties 3/29/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 3/29/2004

As of Friday, 585 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq a year ago, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 395 died as a result of hostile action and 190 died of nonhostile causes, the department said. The department did not provide an update over the weekend.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, five; Ukraine, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, Estonia and Poland have reported one each.

Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 447 U.S. soldiers have died -- 280 as a result of hostile action and 167 of nonhostile causes, according to the military.

Since the start of military operations, 2,958 U.S. service members have been injured as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. Nonhostile injured numbered 436.

There were no new deaths reported by the military.

The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Staff Sgt. Wentz Jerome Henry Shanaberger III, 33, Naples, Fla.; killed Wednesday in Iraq in an insurgent attack; assigned to the Army's 21st Military Police Company, 16th Military Police Brigade, XVIIIth Airborne Corps; Fort Bragg, N.C.

[ThomWV]

1. How About Deaths Subsequent To Woundings?

Of the 2,958 troops who have been wounded how many have later died as a result of their wounds?

[sweetheart]

2. count ALL the dead please...

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. kick

n/t