Today's body count (July 16): 2 dead

[IndianaGreen]

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Sgt. Jaror C. Puello-Coronado, 36, Pocono Summit, Pa., died on July 13 at Camp Edson, Iraq. Puello-Coronado was manning a traffic point when the operator of a dump truck lost control of the vehicle. Puello-Coronado was struck by the truck and died of his injuries.

Puello-Coronado was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 310th Military Police Battalion, in Uniondale, N.Y.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/nr20030716-0199.html

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Lance Cpl. Cory Ryan Geurin, 18, of Santee, Calif., was killed in Babylon, Iraq, on July 15. He was standing post on a palace roof in Babylon when he fell approximately 60 feet.

Geurin was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/nr20030716-0200.html

[annagull]

1. I was looking at yesterday's casualties

and almost all of them say they were killed in non-combat, yet almost all say "the incident is still under investigation". :wtf:

[Frances]

2. Both of these deaths

sound suspicious to me. How did the one guy happen to fall off a roof? And how did the other happen to be run over?

[David Zephyr]

3. I Wish We Had A Count of the "Wounded", Too

The rising death toll is terrible, but how many of these soldiers are losing their sight, limbs, hearing and more?

This is so very sad. When will someone within the Republican Party begin to speak up to this issue and demand explanations for why their "planning" has turned out so badly?

American families with loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan are really getting fed up.

I hope that soon there will be mobilization for marches here in the U.S. I hope that something materializes here in Los Angeles.

[Boom_cha]

4. How many that return home in one piece will end up disabled?

Over 25% of Gulf War veterans are now disabled. I wouldn't be surprised to see a similar percentage this time around

[hamwbone]

5. ops

ops

[NNN0LHI]

6. Think you may have missed this one?

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/197/world/Roadside_bomb_kills_American_s:.shtml

Roadside bomb kills American soldier, wounds two others

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq (AP) A powerful bomb, apparently hidden in an abandoned vehicle, blasted a truck in a U.S. supply convoy west of Baghdad Wednesday, killing a soldier who was hurled from his vehicle and wounding two others, soldiers at the scene said.

The explosion occurred as the 20-vehicle military convoy was passing a wrecked truck on the side of the road, Spc. Jose Colon told The Associated Press. Soldiers believe a bomb was hidden in the wreckage and remotely detonated as the convoy passed.

Sgt. Diego Baez, who was in the U.S. truck that took the brunt of the blast, wept as he described the dead soldier.

''We slept next to each other just last night. He was my best friend,'' said Baez, who was uninjured..

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[Best_man23]

7. And the Butcher's Bill continues to Rise

I hope the Freeps are happy.