Marines Leave Afghanistan

Afghanistan War Fatalities from Icasualties.org

92% of Marine Casualties in Afghan War Occurred Under Obama
CNS News
By Ali Meyer
October 29, 2014

This handout photo provided Defense Department shows Marines and sailors with Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan load onto a KC-130 aircraft on the Camp Bastion, Afghanistan flightline, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. The handover of the U.S. Marines' main base to Afghan control in the hardscrabble Helmand province is more than a signal that America’s longest war is ending. It is a reminder of the enormous loss and sacrifice by Marines who swept in as part of President Barack Obama’s surge of forces against a resurgent Taliban in 2009.
(AP Photo/Staff Sgt. John Jackson, Defense Department, US Marines)

There were 1,631 casualties of the Afghan war who were in the U.S. Army, which means that they comprised 73.3 of the casualties. After the Army, the Marines were the next branch of the military that had the highest number of casualties totaling 418.

(CNSNews.com) -- As U.S. Marines withdraw from Operation Enduring Freedom (the Afghanistan war), CNSNews.com's database on casualties shows that 418 Marines gave their lives in the conflict and that 92% of those casualties, 385 deaths, occurred since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.

“U.S. Marines and service members from the United Kingdom left Regional Command Southwest in Afghanistan’s Helmand province today, turning their facilities over to the Afghan security forces,” reported the Department of Defense on Oct. 27.

“We lift off confident in the Afghans’ ability to secure the region,” said Army Lieutenant General Joseph Anderson, commander of the ISAF Joint Command. “The mission has been complex, difficult and dangerous. Everyone has made tremendous sacrifices, but those sacrifices have not been in vain.”

Sergeants and Specialists in the Army represent nearly half – 49.6 percent – of the total casualties of the Afghanistan War, according to CNSNews.com’s database of U.S. casualties in the war.
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