...in an ambush as Alaska military officials initially reported, an Army commander in Mosul said Tuesday. Pvt. Christopher Alcozer, 21, was fatally shot by an insurgent after 150 U.S. forces and 35 Iraqi soldiers launched an assault on 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...

...the last soldier leaving the building was shot, the citation says, Sanford went to him and began CPR on Pvt. Christopher Alcozer of Illinois. Sanford, whose hometown was not immediately available, was shot twice while attempting to revive...