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Family: former Ohioan dies in Iraq

Jun-24-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

While the DOD has yet to identify the TFO soldier killed today, The Associated Press has confirmed his name - Sgt. Charles Kiser of the 330th MP Division. The news organization received confirmation from his relatives late today. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

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TERRY KINNEY, Associated Press

CINCINNATI - A U.S. soldier who was a champion high school sprinter while growing up in southwest Ohio has been killed in Iraq, his family said Thursday.

Army Sgt. Charles Kiser, 37, was killed outside Mosul, his family said.

"We received word this afternoon," said Kiser's brother-in-law, Bill Grannen.

The Defense Department said a U.S. soldier was killed Thursday by a car bomb in Mosul but did not release the soldier's name. Two other U.S. soldiers were killed and seven wounded Thursday when their patrol was ambushed in Baqouba.

Kiser was with the 330th Military Police Division, a reserve unit based in Sheboygan, Wis., and had been in Iraq since January, his family said.

"What we understand is, he was in a convoy of Humvees driving, and apparently a car bomb went off and some debris and shrapnel went through the windshield and struck him in the face and killed him," said Grannen, acting as spokesman for the family.


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