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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 10 > Oregon soldier’s 2004 death in Iraq under investigation

Oregon soldier’s 2004 death in Iraq under investigation

By Kimberly Hefling / The Bulletin
February 10, 2009

WASHINGTON — Army criminal investigators have opened a probe into the death of an Oregon soldier who was electrocuted while swimming at a U.S.-operated base in Iraq.

Spc. Chase Whitham’s death on May 8, 2004, has been blamed on a short in a pool motor that was improperly....

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