An unusually quiet week, perhaps with the Islamic holiday of Eid coming, nobody was in the mood to fight? Wouldn’t that be nice, if everyone could cancel war and dying due to a lack of interest?

US Army PFC. Michael A. Rogers, 23, of White Sulphur Springs, Mont., died in Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.

US Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class David M. Mudge, 22, of Sutherlin, Ore., died Nov. 28, in a non-hostile accident aboard USS Rentz while in Port Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates.

US Army Pfc. Derrick D. Gwaltney, 21, of Cape Coral, Fla., died in Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident.

US Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan A. Taylor, 22, of Jacksonville, Fla., died while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

US Army Sgt. Kenneth R. Nichols Jr., 28, of Chrisman, Ill., died in Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit using small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fires

(Special Listing)
Sgt. Brandon T. Islip, 23, of Richmond, Va., had been listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown. His status was changed Nov. 29 to having died in a non-combat related incident.
***Earlier, I reported this soldier as “missing in action”…the old description for what they now euphemistically call “duty station unknown”. (I will spare you my rant about how a military unit can NOT know where a troop’s duty station is located). As of Nov 29, he is listed as dead from a NON-COMBAT incident. I don’t know what that means, since he and a comrade disappeared in circumstances that seemed combat related—the men were on mission to recover an air drop of supplies. Since it was a combat related mission, I scarcely see how the death can be considered non-combat related.