US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 682

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US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 682

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:13 PM

-- As of Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at least 682 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 Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 511 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 69 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three 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.

--- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072903516.html
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None were draftees. Imagine if they were.