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I've bounced around Google and the DOD web sites today trying some searches, but nothing so far. I have a friend I can check with who might be able to steer me to the right info.

Of course, any FReeper help will be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone else on the thread have a source for US military personnel deaths since the beginning of hostilities in Afghanistan NOT in either Afghanistan or Iraq? IOW non-combat deaths outside of the war zones? We're trying to compare total deaths of US servicemen under Bush, during war time, and Clinton, during "peacetime." Rush was talking about this on his show this week and anita posted about it here, with a link to the article Rush got his info from.

The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133...
1,245 in 1993;
1,109 in 1994;
1,055 in 1995;
1,008 in 1996.

Assuming that there were few deaths oustide of the war zones that's 4,417 killed in four years in "peacetime" under Clinton and 3,133 in the all out war in the middle east. I assume that we have other servicemen who have died outside those combat zones, but I need to find a number to quantify that and add to the deaths in the combat zone so that we can talk about this without leaving ourselves open to attack for not covering all of the bases.

One correction to your post, altura. I am not the "finder of truth." I am at best a "searcher for truth," perhaps a bit like a latter day Demosthenes (though certainly not with his gifts for oratory or logic, I will admit). I often fail, but I never stop trying or hoping.