Daily U.S. Casualties 6/23/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 6/23/2004

As of Tuesday, 840 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 620 died as a result of hostile action and 220 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria and Poland, six each; Ukraine, four; Slovakia three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 702 U.S. soldiers have died -- 511 as a result of hostile action and 191 of nonhostile causes, according to the military as of Tuesday.

Since the March 2003 start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, 5,271 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

The latest deaths reported

by the military:


Two U.S. soldiers were killed Tuesday in an attack on their convoy near Balad.


The latest identifications reported by the military:


Army Spc. Thai Vue, 22, Willows, Calif.; died Friday in a mortar attack in Baghdad; assigned to the 127th Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, V Corps, Hanau, Germany.


Army Pfc. Jason N. Lynch, 21, St. Croix, Virgin Islands; died Friday in an attack in Buhriz; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, Bamberg, Germany.


Army Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington, 36, Glade Spring, Va.; died Monday in Baghdad when his camp was attacked; assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.


Three Marines died Monday in an attack in Ramadi; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.:


Marine Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey, 24, of Hardin, Ky.


Marine Cpl. Tommy L. Parker Jr., 21, of Cleburne, Ark.


Marine Lance Cpl. Pedro Contreras, 27, Harris, Texas

[Jesse_W]

1. Sources?

I assume you are using either http://icasualties.org or getting it directly from the DoD and CENTCOM? Just curious.

[yelladawg]

2. and the answer is

The Pentagon