US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 511
Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:56 PM
(Source: Associated Press/AP Online)trackingBy The Associated Press

As of Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008, at least 511 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 Saturday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 363 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:

- Army Pvt. Tan Q. Ngo, 20, Beaverton, Ore.; died Wednesday in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds from small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire in Zabul province, Afghanistan; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, Hohenfels, Germany.

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On the Net:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/


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