JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Joint Base Lewis-McChord is holding a memorial service Wednesday afternoon for a soldier killed in Afghanistan.
The Army says 21-year-old Spc. Philip C. S. Schiller of The Colony, Texas, died April 11 of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire.
He was a member of the 3rd Stryker Brigade that deployed in December.
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