Memorial Day: 5 deadliest places for US soldiers

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Tikrit, IRAQ: US soldiers cover a window of an abandoned house during a patrol in a rural area at the outskirts of the northern city of Tikrit, 02 January 2006. The search for insurgents continues after 19 people were killed in Iraq Monday, including seven new police recruits blown up by a suicide bomber as they travelled on a bus.
- [FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images]
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Baghdad, IRAQ: US soldier with the 82nd Airborne Brigade and Iraqi soldiers raid a Baghdad neighborhood, 20 March 2007. Iraqi security forces killed 39 "terrorists" in a fierce battle in the western Sunni province of al-Anbar today, a top Iraqi official told AFP.
- [ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images]
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US Marines carry a wounded comrade, who was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), to a Medevac helicopter of US Army's Task Force Lift "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation Regiment in Helmand province on November 10, 2011.
- [BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images]
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US soldiers inspect the site of a suicide attack near the gate of Kandahar international airport on January 19, 2012. A suicide bomber killed at least seven people and wounded eight on January 19 in an attack at Kandahar international airport in war-torn southern Afghanistan, officials said.
- [JANGIR/AFP/Getty Images]
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A US Army carry team moves the transfer case of U.S. Army Sgt. Nicholas M. Dickhut during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, on May 2, 2012 in Dover, Delaware. Sgt. Dickhut, who was from Rochester, Minnesota, was killed during a firefight in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
- [Mark Wilson/AFP/Getty Images]

As America commemorates Memorial Day, more than 2.2 million US service members have seen active duty in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last decade. According to the Associated Press, more than 6,330 have died in the wars since 2001, approximately 4,500 in Iraq and more than 1,840 in Afghanistan.