Deaths Increasing For Part-Time Troops
by TChris
Nine out of thirteen soldiers killed in Iraq during the first week of June belonged to the National Guard or reserves.
The death toll among National Guard and Reserve soldiers has been climbing in recent months, and the pace of casualties so far this month has been the highest of the war. May had the largest number of Guard and Reserve deaths in Iraq, 22 of the month's 80 total U.S. troop deaths.
In all, 827 American troops have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Of the total, 687 have died since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1, 2003.
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