Latest OIF Troop Deaths. Please Remember.

[true_notes]

Since July 1st 23 troops have been killed in action in OIF.

SSGT Scotti L. Bright,36, July 5 Baghdad
Cpl. Lyle J. Cambridge, 23 July 5 Baghdad
Spc. Christopher W. Dickison, 26, July 5 Baqubah Iraq
Pvt Anthony M Mazzarella, 22,July 5 Taji, Iraq
SSGT Jeremy A. Brwon, 26, July 3, Mosul Iraq
Spc. Ryan J. Montgomery, 22, July 3rd, Baghdad
Sgt. Chad M. Mercer, 25, July 3rd, Baghdad
Spc. Rafael A. Carrillo, Jr., 21, July 2nd Baghdad
Sgt. Manny Morndedo, 27, July 1st, Tikrit, Iraq
--------------------------------------Thank you for your sacrifice.
And We're Sorry.

OIF Casualty Totals as of July 7
Killed 1,748; Wounded in action:13,336

[unhappycamper]

1. OIF casuality count as of right now: 1,764 . . n/t

[true_notes]

3. Thanks

Stripes reported only those names...I wonder if the others were so bad they couldn't be identified. It's certainly a tragedy over there.

[niallmac]

2. Thank you for posting what the media is too busy to report.

Excuse my ignorance but what does OIF stand for? Official Iraq Fatalities? I'm guessing.
Also, can you tell me what constitutes an Iraq fatality? Are soldiers who die in Germany counted. Are soldiers who die of combat related wounds one or six months later included in the number. Can you tell me how this works?

[LynnTheDem]

5. bush's "Operation Iraqi Freedom"; it was "Op Iraqi Liberation", aka OIL,

but even bush & Cartel realized that wasn't a great idea.

Yes, troops wounded in Iraq but die outside of Iraq are counted.

ICCC; Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/

[true_notes]

6. Sure

According to military code, anyone who is killed in action is to be placed in total WAR casualty. So if SPC Guerilla is killed by a grenade while patrolling Tikrit, he will be one of the war dead.

Here's the tricky part.

If SPC Guerilla is wounded by this grenade, then is shipped to Germany for care, He has a 48 hour window to be alive. If he dies in Germany after 48 hours, he isn't considered war dead, simply another casualty.

This instruction only came to be in 2001. Was the military expecting mass troop deaths, and needed a way to mask it's true numbers? You bet your ass they were.

This is what's different than 'Nam.

This is why the true numbers of war dead is unknown.

[unhappycamper]

8. Untrue. If PFC Smith dies from wounds received ten months

after the fact, his death is recorded on ICCC. The date of death is recorded as the date the soldiers passed away. Look up fatality details and play with the filters. Every military death from wounds is reported on this site.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[LynnTheDem]

10. Excuse me but that is total bullshit.

And very easily proven as such. :)

[true_notes]

12. Rumors or not

Just what my buddy from Ramstein Said.

Military is just like everywhere else..Rumors are sometimes skewed and flamboyant.

[Botany]

4. Blessings & prayers on their spirits, families, and friends.

July 5 SSGT Scotti L. Bright,36
Cpl. Lyle J. Cambridge, 23
Spc. Christopher W. Dickison,26
Pvt Anthony M Mazzarella,22
SSGT Jeremy A. Brwon, 26,
Spc. Ryan J. Montgomery,
Sgt. Chad M. Mercer, 25,
Spc. Rafael A. Carrillo, Jr., 21,
Sgt. Manny Morndedo, 27,

For all of you :patriot:

Far braver then the men who sent you.

[unhappycamper]

7. OIF = Operation Iraqi Freedom. Here's the definitive web site for

tracking causalities. A DUer is on of the staff.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

[uppityperson]

9. Go DUer.

that is a really good website. Thank you whoever it is.

[LynnTheDem]

11. Actually there's 2 DUers working with ICCC.

Frictionless0 and...damn, forgot who the other one is...someone really obnoxious, I remember that...

:D

[unhappycamper]

14. You're not

that obnoxious. . . . lol

[LynnTheDem]

15. Oh YEAH???!!

:P :P :P :D

:hug:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. OIF = oil is free.... to some people.