California’s War Dead

    Jose C. Rangel

    Jose C. Rangel, 43

    Army National Guard, Staff Sergeant
    Based: Fresno
    Camp Arifjan, Kuwait
    Gender: Male
    Hometown: Fresno
    Foreign Country of Birth: Mexico
    He was a caring person who thought of others before he thought of himself. If he had one last dollar, he would spend it on someone else.
    — Noemi Rangel, widow

    Rangel was born in Nayarit, Mexico and moved to Stockton when he was 13. He collapsed jogging for a training drill after he told someone that he didn't feel well. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead after attempts to revive him failed.
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