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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 731-03
October 03, 2003

DoD Identifies Navy Casualty

            The Department of Defense announced today that Hospitalman Joshua McIntosh, 22, of Kingman, Ariz., died 26 June in Karbala, Iraq, from a non-hostile gunshot wound.

 

            Hospitalman McIntosh was assigned to the Third Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment, 29 Palms, Calif.

 

            The incident is under investigation.