As of Saturday, March 28, 2009, at least 599 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 Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 442 were killed by hostile action.
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 67 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.
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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:
Two sailors were killed Friday by small arms fire in northern Afghanistan; both were assigned to Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan at Camp Shaheen, Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. They were:
_ Navy Lt. Florence B. Choe, 35, El Cajon, Calif.
_ Navy Lt. j.g. Francis L. Toner IV, 26, Narragansett, R.I.
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