Daily U.S. Casualties 5/26/2004

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Daily U.S. Casualties 5/26/2004


As of Tuesday, 796 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 581 died as a result of hostile action and 215 died of non hostile causes.

The British military has reported 58 deaths; Italy, 18; Spain, eight; Bulgaria, six; Ukraine, four; Poland, three; Thailand, two; Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia and the Netherlands have reported one each.

Since May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 658 U.S. soldiers have died -- 472 as a result of hostile action and 186 of non hostile causes, according to the military's numbers.

Since the start of military operations, 4,682 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department's weekly tally.

The latest deaths reported by the U.S. military:

A soldier died Monday in a rocket attack northwest of Baghdad.


A soldier died Monday in a vehicle accident near Ad Dwar, Iraq.

The latest identifications reported by the Pentagon:


Marine Staff Sgt. Jorge A. MolinaBautista, 37, Rialto, Calif., died Sunday in hostile action in Anbar province; assigned to 1st Light Armored Reconnaisance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.


Army Spc. Jeremy L. Ridlen, 23, Paris, Ill., died Sunday in East Fallujah, Iraq, from small arms fire; assigned to the Army National Guard's 1544 Transportation Company, Paris, Ill.