Shawn R. Creighton

Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 04:36 PM EDT

www.adn.com -- FORT WAINWRIGHT -- Two Fort Wainwright soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Rawah, Iraq, an Army spokesman said Wednesday.

Spc. Shawn R. Creighton, 21, of Windsor, N.C., died when a roadside bomb detonated near his Stryker vehicle Saturday, Maj. Kirk Gohlke said. No other soldiers were injured in that incident.

Tuesday, another Fort Wainwright soldier was killed and two others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Rawah, Gohlke said.

The two injured soldiers, also based at Fort Wainwright, were taken to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, an Army hospital in Germany. One was classified as "very seriously injured" and the other was "seriously injured," Gohlke said.

Their identities were not immediately released.

The relatives of the soldier killed Tuesday have been notified, said Gohlke, who anticipated that the name would be released today.

Creighton was assigned to the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Gohlke said. The infantryman joined the Army in July 2003 and was assigned to Fort Wainwright in December 2003.

The deaths are the third and fourth this month for soldiers with Alaska ties in Iraq. Pfc. Joseph I. Love-Fowler, 21, of North Pole died when a bomb detonated near his Humvee in Balad on Saturday, the Department of Defense said.

Spc. Dustin James Harris, 21, a Maine native serving at Fort Wainwright, died when a bomb detonated about 150 miles north of Baghdad while he was on foot patrol April 6, the Army said.

1 comments

http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/CreightonShawnR