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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 789-03
October 27, 2003

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

            The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

            Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring, 40, of Fayetteville, N.C., was killed on Oct. 26 in Baghdad, Iraq.  Buehring was fatally injured during a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the Al-Rasheed Hotel.

 

            Buehring was assigned to Army Central Command Headquarters (Forward), Fort McPherson, Ga.