US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 605

As of Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at least 605 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 446 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.

The latest deaths reported by the military:

_ No deaths reported.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

_ Army Cpl. Francisco X. Aguila, 35, Bayamon, Puerto Rico, died Tuesday in Kabul of wounds suffered from a non-combat incident; assigned to the 82nd Sustainment Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C.

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