UPDATE (9/17 6:30EST): One Marine killed on Friday.
UPDATE (9/16 8pm EST): The number keeps rising.
Recently, the Department of Defense and CentCom have made a habit out of not reporting US fatalities in Iraq until days if not weeks after they occur. This week was especially bloody and silent. Since Sunday, twenty US soldiers have been killed in Iraq. They are:
1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown
Maj. Kevin M. Shea
Sgt. Jacob H. Demand
Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos
Lance Cpl. Dominic C. Brown
Lance Cpl. Michael J. Halal
Staff Sgt. Guy S. Hagy
Sgt. Carl Thomas
Staff Sgt. David J. Weisenburg
Spc. Benjamin W. Isenberg
Lance Cpl. Mathew D. Puckett
1st Lt. Alexander E. Wetherbee
Pfc. Jason T. Poindexter
Cpl. Adrian V. Soltau
Cpl. Jaygee Meluat
1st Lieutenant Andrew K. Stern
Lance Cpl. Drew M. Uhles
Three still unnamed
The DoD’s new press tactics have helped to keep these soldiers’ names under the media’s radar.