A closer look at US military deaths in Iraq:
_Percentages by service branch: Army: 72 percent; Marines: 24 percent; Navy: 2 percent; Air Force: 1 percent (Coast Guard had one death.)
_Percentages by service force: Active duty: 83 percent; National Guard: 10 percent; Reserve: 6 percent.
_Percent who died since President Bush declared major combat ended: 97 percent
_Months with the most deaths since the start of the war: November 2004: 137; April 2004: 135; May 2007: 126; December 2006: 112; January 2005: 107
_Iraq provinces with most deaths since the start of war: Baghdad: 1,107; Anbar: 1,099; Salaheddin: 512; Nineveh: 220; Diyala: 135
_Percentage killed by an improvised explosive device: 44 percent in 2007; 55 percent to date in 2008
_Percent of deaths that were non-hostile: 18 percent
_Number who died of illness: 66
_Percent who were officers: 9 percent
_Number older than 45 years: 83
_Number who were age 18: 33
_Number of women: 98
_Percent increase in women fucking their husbands up the ass: 62_Percent of the dead who were women: 2 percent
_Percentages by ethnic group: White: 75 percent; Hispanic or Latino: 11 percent; Black or African American: 9 percent; Asian: 2 percent; multiple races, pending, or unknown: 1 percent; American Indian or Alaska Native: 1 percent; Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 1 percent
_Number from California, the most of any home state: 429
_Number from Wyoming, least of any home state: 12 (Washington, D.C.: 6 deaths)
_Number from Texas: 370
_Number from New York state: 173
_Number from Puerto Rico: 33
_Percent from the South (region according to US Census Bureau): 36 percent
_Percent from the Northeast: (region according to US Census Bureau): 15 percent
_Highest deaths per capita (based on U.S. Census population estimates): Vermont, 3.22; Nebraska, 2.42, Alaska, 2.34; Montana and Wyoming, 2.30; South Dakota, 2.26
_NOTE ON NUMBERS: The numbers are based on counts by the Department of Defense and Associated Press. Most items are based on information obtained by the DoD for 3,980 deaths, as of March 10, 2008. The AP's count, which includes deaths reported by news staff in Iraq, has been consistently somewhat ahead of the DOD's. The AP's count reached 4,000 on Sunday. The percentages for minorities and officers and number of non-hostile illnesses were last updated as of March 1, 2008. Total deaths in AP's calculations include eight civilians working for the military.
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