Among the US killed in Iraq, which military branch has the most? Which has Least?

Question

Which Military branch in Iraq has sustained the most and which has sustained the least casualties?

Answer 1

Sheer numbers mean nothing. It is the percent of those that have been there, in comparison of the number dead. Though the Army has had the highest number of deaths, the percentage of those killed is less, when you add up the number of Soldiers deployed. The Marines have the second highest casualty rate, percentage based. The Navy personnel killed to date have mainly been those that are operating with the Marines. However, Sailors and Airman are now being tasked to provide their own security for their airfields, convoys, hospitals, encampments, etc....

That is why the Air Force has suffered the highest casualty rate based on a percentage of those deployed. The Air Force (the Navy to some extent) has even changed their Basic Training, and extended it, to more or less mirror the Army's. The Army is still the safest place to be in Iraq, having had in excess of 1.6 million pairs of boots on the ground (many are on subsequent tours and counted twice) over the past 3 years (including National Guard and Reserves).

Answer 2

In a time of war the Coast Guard can be transferred to the Department of the Navy and therefore is a branch of the Armed Forces.

As of August the Army has had the most deaths in Iraq followed by the Marines, then the Navy and Air Force. The Coast Guard has the least with one death.

Answer 3

Army has lost the most, Coast Guard and Air National Guard has lost the least
In order from most to least would be

Army-1530
Marines-731
Army National Guard-376
Army Reserves-108
Navy-77
Marine Reserves-71
Air Force-48
Navy Reserves-3
Coast Guard-1
Air National Guard-1

Answer 4

Probably the Army would have the most, and the Navy the least.
Technically, the Coast Guard is not a military branch, it was under the Department of Transportation, and how the Branch of Homeland Security.

Answer 5

CNN has a homepage that has a list. The Army has taken the biggest hit, but per Capita, the Marines were hit pretty hard. This site and several like it really give the war on terror and the price it is costing us in servicemembers a face and some humanity. May they all find peace in whatever afterlife they chose to believe in.

Answer 6

I'd say the Marines have had the most killed followed by the Army. Least would be the Navy and Coast Guard.

Answer 7

Army, National Guard

Answer 8

Marines are paying the highest toll in Iraq. Their death rate is more than double that of the Army, 10 times higher than that of the Navy and 20 times higher than for the Air Force. In fact, those in the Navy and Air Force have substantially lower death rates than civilian men ages 20 to 34.

Among the Marines, there is in effect no difference in the mortality risks for members on active duty and those in the reserve. In the Army, on the other hand, reservists have 33 percent of the death rate of those in active service because they are not assigned to combat positions. Members of the Army National Guard are intermediate in assignments and in mortality.

Rank: In both the Army and the Marines, enlisted personnel have 40 percent higher mortality than officers. The excess mortality of enlisted soldiers is diminished by the high mortality of the lowest-ranking officers, lieutenants, who are typically the leaders of combat patrols. Lieutenants have the highest mortality of any rank in the Army, 19 percent higher than all Army troops combined. Marine Corps lieutenants have 11 percent higher mortality than all Marines. But the single highest-mortality group in any service consists of lance corporals in the Marines, whose death risk is 3.3 times that of all troops in Iraq.

Answer 9

The Marines have been hit the hardest and the Navy the least.
The coast guard has a very limited presence there and not in a combat mode.

Answer 10

Army has lost most, Air Force has lost the least