The Defense Department Monday reported that four soldiers died Friday in Chowkay Valley, Afghanistan, from wounds sustained when their vehicle was bombed.
-- Private First Class David J. Badie, age 23, of Rockford, Illinois, was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.
-- 2nd Lieutenant Michael R. Girdano of Pennsylvania was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. No hometown was immediately provided for the 23-year-old officer.
-- Specialist William J. Mulvihill, age 20, of Leavenworth, Kansas, was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.
-- Twenty-nine-year-old Private Jair De Jesus Garcia of Chatsworth, California, was assigned to the 6th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division.
A fifth Fort Hood soldier died of injuries sustained in a military vehicle accident. Specialist Andre D. Mitchell, 25, of Elmont, New York, died Thursday in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained in a military vehicle accident.
Mitchell was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
The incident is under investigation.