WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq increased by 198 over the past week, raising the total since the war began in March 2003 to 7,730, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
That is within the range of weekly increases reported over the past two months, which have varied from about 110 to 226 in one of the most intense periods of insurgent violence this year.
The Pentagon also announced that a member of the Rhode Island Army National Guard was killed Oct. 3 in Taji, Iraq. Sgt. Christopher S. Potts, 38, of Tiverton, R.I., was hit by small arms fire while manning a traffic control post. He was with the 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment.
Potts was the third Army National Guard soldier to have been killed in Iraq this month, along with one active-duty soldier. National Guard and Reserve soldiers represent more than 40 percent of the 137,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.
Thirteen of the 80 U.S. troops who died in Iraq in September were members of the National Guard or Reserve.
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