Daily U.S. Casualties 8/17/2004

[yelladawg]

Daily U.S. Casualties 8/17/2004

As of Monday, 935 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 697 died as a result of hostile action and 238 died of nonhostile causes.

The British military has reported 63 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, 11; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, six; Slovakia, three; Thailand, two; and Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia and the Netherlands have reported one death each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 797 U.S. soldiers have died -- 588 as a result of hostile action and 209 of nonhostile causes.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

Three soldiers with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were killed Sunday in Najaf province.

A soldier was killed Sunday in an explosion in northern Baghdad.


A Marine was killed Sunday in Anbar province, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas B. Morrison, 23, Carlisle, Pa.; killed Friday in Anbar province, Iraq; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.


Army 1st Lt. Neil Anthony Santoriello, 24, Verona, Pa.; killed Friday when an explosive detonated near his patrol vehicle in Khalidiyah, Iraq; assigned to 1st Battalion, 34th Armor, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.


Army Pfc. Brandon R. Sapp, 21, Lake Worth, Fla.; killed Sunday when his Bradley fighting vehicle hit an explosive in Najaf, Iraq; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.


Army Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd, 23, Elyria, Ohio; killed Friday when his Bradley fighting vehicle hit an explosive in Ar Ra mabi, Iraq; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, Fort Riley, Kan.

Two Marines killed Wednesday in a helicopter crash in Anbar province, Iraq:


Marine Staff Sgt. John R. Howard, 26, Covington, Va.; assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, Calif.


Marine Lance Cpl. Tavon L. Hubbard, 24, Reston, Va.; assigned to the Command Element, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.

[bigwillq]

1. Thanks for this sad but important list

Every time another American soldier dies, it makes me more and more angry that we went to war in the first place.


R.I.P., you brave souls.