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Chance Russell Phelps （July 14, 1984 – April 9, 2004） was a private first class – posthumously promoted to lance corporal – in the United States Marine Corps.
He served with 2nd Platoon, Battery L, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment （3/11）, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Phelps was killed in Iraq as the convoy he was escorting came under heavy fire.
His story is the subject of an HBO movie, Taking Chance.
Phelps was born in Riverton, Wyoming, moved to Craig, Colorado as a young boy, and then again to Clifton, Colorado where he graduated from Palisade High School in 2003.
He was motivated to join the Marines by the events of September 11, 2001.
After attending recruit training at MCRD San Diego, he attended artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
He was finally assigned to 3/11, with which he deployed in February 2004.
Phelps was killed in action at approximately 13:30 on April 9, 2004 （Good Friday） at the age of 19, outside Ar Ramadi, Iraq.
Phelps's unit was conducting convoy escort （including the assistant commander of the 1st Marine Division, Brigadier General John F. Kelly） when they came under heavy small arms fire, including rocket-propelled grenades.
Despite being wounded, he refused to be evacuated, and instead manned his M240 machine gun （also reported to have been a M2 .50 caliber machine gun） to cover the evacuation of the rest of his convoy.
Upon withdrawal, he sustained his fatal wound to the head.
Phelps was buried in Dubois, Wyoming, on April 17, 2004, with full military honors.
His remains were escorted home by LtCol Michael Strobl, whose accounts of the escort were recorded in an article he wrote ti...