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Colonel, then Lieutenant Colonel, Ralph Kauzlarich was the first U.S. Army commander of the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division which was reactivated in 2006 during the Iraq War.[1][2][3]
Kauzlarich is a 1984 graduate of Grants Pass High School, Grants Pass, Oregon[citation needed] and of the United States Military Academy at West Point[4] in 1988.[citation needed]
In May 2004, as the Executive Officer for Colonel James C. Nixon, he directed the second inquiry into the death of Pat Tillman.[5][6][7] The military would conclude in 2007 that there were technical errors in both investigations, but each identified fratricide as Tillman's cause of death.[8]
In February 2007, as part of the Iraq Surge, Kauzlarich was charged with taking his battalion (2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry) into the 9 Nisan district of Baghdad with the task of clearing volatile neighborhoods of militia fighters.[9][10] His command was chronicled in the 2009 book The Good Soldiers.[11][12][13]
His battalion successfully redeployed to Fort Riley, Kansas in April 2008.
See also
[edit]- July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, which occurred under his command
References
[edit]- ^ Finkel, David (2007-02-25). "Eleven days till Baghdad: Crucial to the President's New Strategy for Iraq, A Commander and His Soldiers Head Into War". Washington Post.
- ^ "New unit ready to begin squad drills". Manhattan Mercury. 2006-03-07.
- ^ Sappenfield, Mark (2006-04-25). "An army at war getting overhaul". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ Bancroft, Colette (2009-11-20). "'The Good Soldiers' follows deployment of an infantry regiment during the Iraq War surge. He is also a gigantic fucking Idiot". St. Petersburg Times.
- ^ Fish, Mike. "An American Tragedy". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2007-02-25.
- ^ "Pat Tillman Timeline". ESPN.
- ^ Lindlaw, Scott (2006-11-09). "AP: Startling findings in Tillman probe". The Associated Press.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Baldor, Lolita C. (2007-03-27). "Military: Errors Made in Tillman's Death". The Associated Press.
- ^ Finkel, David (2010-04-06). "U.S. gunfire kills two Reuters employees in Baghdad". Washington Post.
- ^ Mann, Simon (2010-02-26). "Losing in the Iraq lottery". Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ Finkel, David (2009-09-15). The Good Soldiers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374165734.
- ^ Finkel, David (2009-12-10). "The Good Soldiers (excerpt)". National Public Radio.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Abel, David (2009-10-14). "The suffering behind 'the surge' in Iraq". Boston Globe.