A daily look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq

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As of Saturday, March 26, 2005, at least 1,527 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,164 died as a result of hostile action, according to the Defense Department. The figures include four military civilians.

The AP count is seven higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated at 10 a.m. EST Friday.

The British military has reported 86 deaths; Italy, 21; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 17; Spain, 11; Bulgaria, eight; Slovakia, three; Estonia, Thailand and the Netherlands, two each; and Denmark, El Salvador, Hungary, Kazakhstan and Latvia one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 1,389 U.S. military members have died, according to AP's count. That includes at least 1,055 deaths resulting from hostile action, according to the military's numbers. <snip>

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/085/nation/A_daily_look_at_U_S_military_d:.shtml

This website has a great explanation on why it is so hard to match what the DOD and CENTCOM call a Death and what normal people call a Death. To be killed in Iraq is one of the hardest things to do, arguably, in the whole world! If the DOD and CENTCOM can get a soldier off the battlefield before their dead then they ain't killed in action. They can die anywhere else they like, but they will not appear on official DOD and CENTCOM killed in Iraq numbers. Iraq coalition casualty numbers appear to be always behind. Globalsecurity.com has 15 currently reported dead soldiers by the DOD and CENTCOM listed which Iraq Coalition Casualties has not registered. All these soldiers are waiting to be reported dead to their next of kin, so may not appear on Iraq Coalition Casualties site. Iraq Coalition Casualties site is a great site for appreciating the absolute minimum American and coalition deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. General Westmoreland would be pleased!
As for the wounded, both sites agree 11,500 American's in Iraq only, is probably enough for the American public to handle. Other sources claim the number is much higher including our "good friend" who hangs out at Landstuhl!!! This number is obviously a sensitive issue to Americans and therefore i'll leave the debate to them. However it does look like that an American soldier has a 1 in 10 chance of being killed or wounded in Iraq, even under what is probably sanitized numbers. This ratio needs to be communicated by US army recruiters before they talk about the College education,health care and tax free benefits of "Signing up"!!!!

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This is a good place to go to help keep track.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

I have been using it recently especially to look at the news articles of Iraq deaths and wounded--on the right hand side of the page. I am involved in sending some packages to solders and one of them suddenly posted that he had to go home for medical care--he was near Fallujah so I was worried that he had been injured.