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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 225-03
April 09, 2003

DOD IDENTIFIES MARINE CASUALTY

The Department of Defense announced today that Pfc. Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr., 20, of Temperance, Mich., was killed in action on April 8 in central Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif.