Department of Defense identifies Army casualties

As of Tuesday, at least 507 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.

Of those, the military reports 361 were killed by hostile action.

Two soldiers died Friday in Wardak province, Afghanistan, when their vehicle struck an explosive, then received small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire. Killed were 1st Lt. Donald C. Carwile, 29, Oxford, Va., and Pfc. Paul E. Conlon Jr., 21, Somerville, Mass. Both were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two 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.

Other casualties reported were:

Army Pfc. Jonathan L. Luscher, 20, Scranton, Pa.; died Sunday at Forward Operating Base Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan, of injuries from a non-combat incident; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, Scranton, Pa.

Army Staff Sgt. Kristopher D. Rodgers, 29, Sturgis, Mich.; killed Saturday in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, when an explosive detonated near his vehicle; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.