A Profile Of U.S. Casualties In Afghanistan Takes Shape

An undated photo shows American military personnel with coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq at Dover Air Base in Delaware. Memoryhole.org, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

U.S. Casualties In Afghanistan Profiled -- UPI

STONY BROOK, N.Y., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- On the 10th anniversary of war in Afghanistan, U.S. researchers say most American troops killed in combat were white men who had completed high school.

Michael Zweig, Michael Porter and Yuxiang Huang of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook said the report was based on a reading of obituaries and tribute pages for each of the 1,446 U.S. military personnel -- 23 were women -- who died in Afghanistan from October 2001 to the end of 2010, and analysis of U.S. Census and other data for the communities from where they came.

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