Posted on 07/15/2018 10:02:50 AM PDT by huldah1776
The Department of Defense on Friday identified the American service member killed in Afghanistan on July 12 as Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Andrew Celiz from Summerville, South Carolina.
Currently, Army officials are trying to determine what the circumstances are surrounding Celiz’ death, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said on Friday. “I can tell you that sergeant first class was a hero,” he said.
Celiz, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, died from wounds sustained from enemy small arms fire while conducting combat operations at a medevac landing zone in the eastern Paktia province. At the time of his death, he was serving as a battalion mortar platoon sergeant.
Celiz has been posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart, according to U.S. Army Special Operations Command.
Celiz has previously deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He was on his fifth deployment with the 1st Battalion, 75 Ranger Regiment when he was killed and his seventh since joining the U.S. armed forces.
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Really wish it could be said that this young American’s supreme sacrifice enhanced the security and well being of the American people.
I wonder if his fifth deployment was voluntary or ordered. Five deployments to a war zone seems excessive to me.
This young man is an amazing hero.
That being said, why are we there? Why don’t we just leave, and smack them really hard when the riff raff come back, then leave again quickly.
They NEVER die for nothing.
Too many good men are being sacrificed in a Perpetual War that is being waged for profit and for the self-destruction of our Republic. Our nation has never remained at war for this long, with no mission, no clear goals, and no way to measure victory or defeat. One day we will be forced to muster our remaining resolve and resources to fight a real war, so we must bring this current waste to an end before it depletes us.
Never before has the world been so small. You can leave those nations on the other side of the world, and be in the U. S. within 36 hours.
Any place that has terrorists, has terrorist training camps.
We fight them there, or we fight them here.
It’s that simple.
This isn’t going away soon, so buckle up.
We have been at war in Korea since 1953.
Afghanistan flanks Iran and Pakistan and is strategic.
Dunno all the circumstances. But if it was voluntary, I'm thinkin Mr Celiz may have been doing what he loved.
If that be the case, who could ask for more? d:^)
Condolences and "Thank you" to the one lost and left.
I wonder if his fifth deployment was voluntary or ordered.. He volunteered, did not get drafted. He willingly trained for the Rangers so no matter what, he volunteered.
Redeploying means in the macro way of looking at the UNDECLARED war, that the war is not going well nor are initial objectives met. It would be nice to know what they are at this point. Maybe that is way to simplistic but we are closing in on twenty years since 9/11. Protracted conflicts exhaust a country and the Taliban historically knows how to do that. My theory is that Pakistan is the real problem and always will be.
Rangers are 3X volunteers (Army/Airborne/Ranger). Life in the Regiment means you are always on notice for immediate deployment into combat anywhere on the earth.
This young SFC has seen and done things that only a few have experienced. Someday, maybe decades from now, some of their exploits will be told. Some are so classified that they never will be known.
RIP, Ranger.
We have a serious and fundamental problem when our military has occupied a foreign land so long that personnel are being deployed this many times.
Huh? Yeah, all deployments are voluntary in that you willingly enlisted or accepted a commission and agreed to do anything asked anywhere until either you died, became unqualified or reach the end of your agreed upon time in service, unless the secretary of your component declares otherwise....
“Rest” Ranger Celiz.
Only two options:
1- quit the problem 2-increase the numbers of service members
1- well maybe the proper COA, but until then, we go with whom we have.
2-More would join if asked and funded, but not enough. So would a draft be in order? (Sarc/cyn)
Dammit.
RIP Ranger.
What was a mortar Sgt doing in a hot LZ during a dust off? Story is real short on details.
[Our nation has never remained at war for this long]
RIP. The fact that the numbers of casualties are low enough that each KIA merits an entire biographical essay is, oddly-enough, encouraging. If, during the Pacific War, they had done these essays for all the young men killed daily, they wouldn’t have room to print anything else.
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