US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 476
As of Friday, July 18, 2008, at least 476 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures July 12 at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 335 were killed by hostile action.
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.
There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.
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The latest deaths reported by the military:
-- No deaths reported.
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The latest identifications reported by the military:
-- Marine 1st Lt. Jason D. Mann, 29, Woodlynne, N.J., died Thursday from a non-hostile incident in Helmand province, Afghanistan; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
-- Army Pfc. Willington M. Rhoads, 23, Las Vegas, Nev.; died Wednesday in Bagram, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered from a non-combat incident; assigned to the 173rd Brigade Support Battalion (Airborne), Vicenza, Italy.
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