Army Pvt. Christopher M. Alcozer

Died November 19, 2005 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

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21, of DeKalb, Ill.; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, Alaska; killed Nov. 19 when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire and grenades in Mosul, Iraq.

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Fort Wainwright soldier dies in Iraq ambush

Associated Press

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — A 21-year-old Fort Wainwright soldier died in an ambush in the northern Iraq city of Mosul.

The Army said Pvt. Christopher Alcozer of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team was killed Saturday when his patrol was ambushed by insurgents using small arms and hand grenades in Mosul.

The Army said 12 soldiers were injured, four of them seriously or very seriously. The other eight were not seriously hurt, the Army said.

Alcozer is from DeKalb, Ill., and joined the Army in January. He had been stationed at Fort Wainwright since May.

Alcozer was part of Company C, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

U.S. forces sealed off a house Sunday in Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a shootout.

Alcozer is the fourth member of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to die in Iraq over the past five weeks.

Staff Sgt. Stephen Sutherland, 33, a native of West Deptford, N.J., died Nov. 11 when his Stryker vehicle rolled and was damaged. The vehicle was part of a convoy in Al Qadisiyah, which is near Rawah in western Iraq.

Spc. Lucas A. Frantz of Kansas was killed Oct. 18 during a mission to Mosul and Spc. Daniel D. Bartels of South Dakota died from a non-combat injury the following day.