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Roland L Castro
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Name: Army Staff Sgt. Roland L. Castro
Age: 26
From: San Antonio, Texas
Assigned to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 12th Field Artillery, based at Fort Sill, Okla.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Roland L. Castro was killed from a non-hostile gunshot wound, Jan. 16, in Camp Cedar II, Iraq.
Died: January 16, 2004
Texas family remembers soldier killed
By Associated Press
Age: 26
From: San Antonio, Texas
Assigned to Battery A, 1st Battalion, 12th Field Artillery, based at Fort Sill, Okla.
Incident: Army Staff Sgt. Roland L. Castro was killed from a non-hostile gunshot wound, Jan. 16, in Camp Cedar II, Iraq.
Died: January 16, 2004
Texas family remembers soldier killed
By Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — After being sent to Texas over the summer with relatively minor hand injuries, Army Staff Sgt. Roland Castro told his mother he had to return to Iraq.
“’I’ve got to bring my soldiers back safely,’” Castro’s mother, Hope Soriano, recalled him saying at Brooke Army Medical Center in June. Within weeks he was again leading his field artillery unit near Baghdad.
On Tuesday, the Department of Defense identified the 26-year-old from San Antonio as having died Friday of a non-hostile gunshot wound in Camp Cedar II, Iraq.
Castro was the kind of father who happily played dress-up with his 4-year-old daughter, Raquel Lee.
“It didn’t matter what kind...
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Battery A, 1st Battalion, 12th Field Artillery, based at Fort Sill, Okla.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Roland L. Castro died from a non-hostile gunshot wound, Jan. 16, in Camp Cedar II, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Roland L Castro
2007-08-16
Miss you love you always