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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 382-03
May 30, 2003

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Spc. Jose A. Perez III, 22, of San Diego, Texas, was killed on May 28, in Taji, Iraq.  Perez was in a convoy that was ambushed.

Perez was assigned to 6th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Sill, Okla.