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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 464-03
June 27, 2003

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

            The Department of Defense announced today that Spc. Andrew F. Chris, 25, of Calif., was killed on June 25 in Iraq.  Chris was fatally wounded in combat operations in hostile enemy territory.

 

            Chris was assigned to Company B, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, Ga.