Summary: October 2014 monthly report of U.S. military deaths in the Afghanistan war (Operation Enduring Freedom) and the war against ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (Operation Inherent Resolve), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org.

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on December 23, 2008, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Army had begun an investigation after being prodded by Amanda Henderson, wife of Sgt. 1st Class Patrick Henderson, an Iraq combat veteran who spent the final months of his life as an Army recruiter before hanging himself with a dog chain in his backyard shed. In all, 15 of the Army’s 8,400 recruiters committed suicide between 2003 when the Iraq war began, and 2008, with more than 540 of the Army’s half-million active-duty soldiers killing themselves.

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