Daily U.S. Casualties 8/22/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 8/22/2004

As of Friday, 949 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 708 died as a result of hostile action and 241 died of nonhostile causes. The department did not provide an update Saturday.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 811 U.S. soldiers have died -- 599 as a result of hostile action and 212 of nonhostile causes, according to Friday's numbers.

The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command:


A soldier was killed Saturday by a rocket-propelled grenade in southern Baghdad.


Two soldiers were killed Friday by an explosive near Samarra.


The latest identification reported by the Department of Defense:

Marine Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 23, Allons, Tenn.; killed Thursday in Iraq's Anbar Province; assigned to the Marine Corps Reserves

3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Nashville, Tenn.