Here are some interesting statistics from Armytimes.com:
Statistics for Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom at 1000 casualties: (where numbers do not add to 1000 information is undetermined/pending) Killed in Action: 540
Died later of Combat Wounds: 129
Died while Missing in Action: 8
Died while Captured: 3 Deaths by Accident: 205
Illness: 33
Self-inflicted: 34
Total Enlisted: 873
Total Warrant Officer: 34
Total Officer: 93 Active Duty: 812
Total Reserve: 188 White: 699 (71.4%)
Black: 120 (12.3%)
Hispanic: 114 (11.6%)
Other: 46 (4.7%) Male: 977 (97.7%)
Female: 23 (2.3%) Active Duty Home Stations (top 10):
Camp Pendleton, CA: 105
Fort Hood, TX: 86
Fort Campbell, KY: 77
Fort Bragg, NC: 58
Fort Carson, CO: 44
Fort Stewart, GA: 42
Camp Lejeune, NC: 40
Fort Riley, KS: 38
Twentynine Palms, CA: 34
Fort Lewis, WA: 25 Almost half of the first 1,000 to die have been either E-3s or E-4s. Almost half of the 1,000 were younger than 24.
Nearly three-fourths of the deaths have been Army.
Two-thirds of the deaths have been caused by enemy action or devices.
Reserves/Guardsman makes up 18 percent of the deaths.
More than 70 percent of those who have died were white. Despite fears that an all-volunteer force would end up putting minorities at greater risk than whites, the military death toll is distributed proportionately among Americas racial and ethnic groups. Statistics for Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom | 
