Daily U.S. Casualties 5/17/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 5/17/2004

As of Sunday, 777 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 567 died as a result of hostile action and 210 died of nonhostile causes. The department did not provide an update Saturday or Sunday, but two more weekend deaths were reported.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 17; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 639 U.S. soldiers have died -- 458 as a result of hostile action and 181 of nonhostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

The latest deaths reported Sunday by the U.S. military:


One U.S. soldier was killed Saturday night when a bomb exploded beside a vehicle in Baghdad, the Army said.

A soldier died of wounds suffered during a firefight Saturday south of Baghdad, the military said.

The latest identifications reported by military officials:

Marine Pfc. Brandon Sturdy, 19, Urbandale, Iowa; killed Thursday by an explosive northwest of Fallujah, Iraq; assigned to Weapons Platoon, Fox Company, Second Battalion, First Marine Regiment.

Sgt. Maj. Edward C. Barnhill, 50, Shreveport, La.; died May 14 in Baghdad of noncombat related injuries; assigned to the Army Reserve's 431st Civil Affairs Battalion, North Little Rock, Ark.

[fryguy]

1. numbers are a little off

don't know which is right, yours or these: http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx