A daily look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
By Associated Press, 8/9/2004 17:45
As of Monday, Aug. 9, 928 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 691 died as a result of hostile action and 237 died of non-hostile causes.
The British military has reported 62 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Poland, seven; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; 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, 790 U.S. soldiers have died 582 as a result of hostile action and 208 of non-hostile causes, according to the Defense Department.
The latest deaths reported by U.S. Central Command or the British Ministry of Defense:
A British soldier was killed Monday in an attack on British vehicles in Basra, Iraq.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
Army Spc. Joshua I. Bunch, 23, Hattiesburg, Miss.; died Friday in Baghdad, Iraq, when small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades struck his vehicle; assigned to the 91st Engineer Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division; Fort Hood, Texas.
Army Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 24, Leonardtown, Md.; died Thursday in Najaf, Iraq, when small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades struck his convoy; assigned to the 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Group; Fort Eustis, Va.
Army Pfc. David L. Potter, 22, Johnson City, Tenn., died Saturday in Baghdad, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries; assigned to the 115th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division; Fort Hood, Texas.
Associated Press
