Sad news from Iraq

I hate to blog something like this, but I was informed tonight by another blogger that it appears 2ID has experienced its first casualty in Iraq:

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Spc. Omead H. Razani, 19, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Aug. 27 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries. Razani was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Greaves, Korea.

The incident is under investigation.

For further information related to this release, call Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.

Condolences go out to his family and friends.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on September 2, 2004 at 3:31 am, filed under ROK-US Issues. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

2 Comments

  1. makhno
    Posted September 4, 2004 at 3:37 am | Permalink

    “[Recent reports] appear to have omitted counting the number killed but unidentified pending notification of kin. Total US dead is reported at 1012 as at end of August (244 days of 2004 with 530 dead versus 482 dead in 2003’s 287 days despite end of official war and return of “sovereignty”).

    Of at least equal concern is US casualties totalling 6987 as at end of August including a big jump of 1112 in the most recent month alone. Note that the wearing of bullet-proof vests means that many of these would have been deaths in earlier combats such as Vietnam. The vests have reduced deaths but greatly increased total incapacitation wounds such as brain injuries and limb loss. (Note that Pentagon has been trying to “spin” the number of wounded by only reporting “hostile” wounded since 1 April 2004).

    If you assume that the 6987 wounded cannot return to fight and nor can the 4416 reported non-battle injury evacuations, the US loses 21.47 soldiers per day to injury (and 36 per day in most recent month) on top of the 1.9 average deaths per day (total 23.37 per day equals 8530 per year that this continues, more if rates escalate as they are currently). Too many years at this rate and the US military is severely depleted, not to mention the increased vet costs and resultant family impact back home.”

    http://www.juancole.com/2004_0.....0427557669

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