As of Thursday, July 9, 2009, at least 647 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 Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Of those, the military reports 480 were killed by hostile action.

Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 68 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.

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The latest deaths reported by the military:

_ Two soldiers died Wednesday in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan.

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The latest identifications reported by the military:

_ Navy Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Darren Ethan Tate, 21, Canyon, Texas; died Wednesday of non-hostile causes at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; assigned to the USS Iwo Jima, and deployed as an Individual Augmentee to Combined Security Transition Command _ Afghanistan.

_ Marine Sgt. Michael C. Roy, 25, North Fort Myers, Fla.; died Wednesday while supporting combat operations in Nimroz province, Afghanistan; assigned to 3d Marine Special Operations Battalion, Marine Special Operations Advisor Group, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

_ Army Spc. Gregory J. Missman, 36, Batavia, Ohio, died Wednesday at Bagram, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained elsewhere in Afghanistan when enemy forces attacked his unit using small arms fire; assigned to the 704th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

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