At least 792 US military deaths in Afghanistan region since 2001, Defense Department says

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 792

As of Monday, Oct. 12, 2009, at least 792 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 Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 612 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 72 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 new deaths reported.

The latest identifications reported by the military:

— Army Spc. George W. Cauley, 24, Walker, Minn.; died Saturday in Bagram, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive on Oct. 7 in Helmand province; assigned to the 114th Truck Company of the Minnesota Army National Guard in Duluth, Minn.

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