The death toll for Hawai'i troops in Iraq continues to ratchet up, with the Pentagon yesterday identifying a Marine and soldier killed over the weekend.

That news came on the same day that 10 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq. Their names were not immediately released.

Marine Cpl. Joshua C. Sticklen, 24, of Virginia Beach, Va., drowned when the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter he was in made an emergency water landing on Sunday in western Iraq, military officials said.

The father of Maj. Joseph T. McCloud, 39, of Grosse Pointe Park, Mich., had previously identified his son as also having been killed in the accident in Haditha, northwest of Baghdad.

Both Marines were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kane'ohe Bay.

The Army, meanwhile, said Sgt. Keith E. Fiscus, 26, of Townsend, Del., died on Saturday of injuries when a roadside bomb detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Taji.

At least 170 service members with Hawai'i ties have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003.

Fiscus was with the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Wolfhounds — a unit that's still in Hawai'i, but is training for a fall 2007 deployment to Iraq as part of a Stryker brigade.

Darrell Fiscus said by phone from Delaware that his son volunteered to go to Iraq for a seven-month tour after serving more than a year there in 2004 with the Wolfhounds.

"He was serving his country and he thought it was his job, his duty," Darrell Fiscus said.

In June, the single soldier had received training in Maryland on detecting and disarming car bombs and explosives, his father said.

In Iraq, Keith Fiscus worked with the Air Force. He was scheduled to return in February. After his military career, the younger Fiscus wanted to work as a police explosive ordnance disposal expert.

"It was fascinating to him," Darrell Fiscus said. "Keith was very intelligent and he liked to get himself involved in different things like that."

It was a roadside bomb — the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops in Iraq and the weapon Fiscus was focused on identifying and disarming — that killed the Schofield Barracks soldier.

Fiscus' Humvee was hit when his convoy made a wrong turn and had to turn around on a road the soldiers had not been on before, his father said.

"It was very powerful IED (improvised explosive device). It took the Humvee up in the air and flipped it around back and turned it the other way," Darrell Fiscus said.

The Delaware man talked Tuesday with the driver, who was ejected and transported to Germany for treatment.

"He told me that he could remember just kind of rolling and rolling and rolling, and finally when he stopped, the medics were on top of him checking him out," Darrell Fiscus said. "He was saying, 'Why aren't you checking my buddy' (Keith Fiscus), and they said he had no pulse."

Darrell Fiscus and his wife didn't want their son to go back to Iraq and tried to talk him out of it.

"We heard too many stories, and he has told us point blank that the Iraqi people do not want us over there," the father said. "All the military guys think it's a worthless cause because they are trying to fight for something that those people don't even want, and they don't want nothing to do with the American soldiers."

More than 7,000 Schofield Barracks soldiers are serving a year-long deployment in northern Iraq. Fiscus had been in Baghdad, but was shifted to Taji about 20 miles north of Baghdad, the military and family said.

Marine Corps Base Hawai'i said McCloud, who had enlisted in the Corps in 1990 and was commissioned in 1992, was the operations officer for the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines.

McCloud's awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, three Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, Kuwait Liberation Medal and four Southwest Asia Service Medals.

About 1,000 Hawai'i Marines with the unit are based around Haditha in western Iraq and are about three months into a seven-month tour.

Sticklen was an intelligence specialist who joined the Marines in 2002 and reported to Hawai'i in 2003.

The Sea Knight helicopter Sticklen and McCloud were on made an emergency landing on Lake Qadisiyah after experiencing a malfunction. As the helicopter touched down on the lake as a precautionary measure, the crew chiefs and passengers exited out the back, the military said.

The pilots had enough power to "surf-glide" across the water and up a boat ramp onto shore, an official said.

The military said four of the evacuated personnel drowned. An investigation is under way.

Sticklen also had served in Afghanistan. The Richmond Times-Dispatch said a spokesman for the family in Virginia Beach said the family did not wish to speak immediately to the press about the loss.

Reach William Cole at wcole@honoluluadvertiser.com.