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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 460-03
June 27, 2003

DoD Identifies Navy Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today that Interior Communications Electrician First Class Petty Officer Thomas E. Retzer, 30, of San Diego, Calif., died of wounds received in action June 25 in Afghanistan.