Explosive Device

A pressure-plate improvised explosive device killed a noncommissioned officer from the Fort Wainwright 1 st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 th Infantry Division Sunday in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Sgt. Timothy Douglas Sayne, 31, from Reno, Nev. Served as a cavalry scout with the 5 th Squadron, 1 st Cavalry Regiment, 1 st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 th Infantry Division. Sayne has been an Army soldier since February 2008. He graduated from Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Know, Ky. and arrived at Fort Wainwright in August 2008.

It was a standing room only crowd at the Chapel on J-BER for SPC Jeffrey White Jr. He is the first solider from the 4 th Brigade Combat Team 25 th Infantry Division to be killed in Afghanistan since the unit deployed this past December. White was killed when his unit was attacked by insurgents who were using an improvised explosive device while he was on patrol. He died April 3 rd . White was from Catawissa , MO. He enlisted when he was 19 years-old in 2009. Friends say White was athletic, and that he was always up for a run even after he'd spent a majority of the day playing hockey.

Just three days after Fort Wainwright Stryker Pfc. Brandon Mullins was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan, the Army says another soldier from the same brigade was killed in a similar but separate attack Monday. Spc. Douglas Jay Green, 23, of Sterling, Va., died from injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit using an IED and small arms while the unit was on a dismounted patrol. Two other soldiers from the same brigade were injured in the attack. Green was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright where he served as an infantryman, according to U.S. Army Alaska public affairs officer Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll.

Two Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson paratroopers died Sunday from injuries they suffered when insurgents attacked their Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle with an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Khost Province. Sgt. Brian L. Walker, 25, and Pfc. Richard L. McNulty III, 22, were both military policemen assigned to the 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division. Walker, from Lucerne Valley, Calif., was the MRAP's commander when it was attacked.

The Army says a Fort Wainwright soldier wounded by a car bomb late last month in Afghanistan died of his injuries Sunday at a hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. Spc. Christophe J. Marquis of Tampa, Fla. was 40. Marquis was wounded Aug. 27 by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device which exploded at an entry control point he was guarding in Kandahar Province. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright where he served as an infantryman.

Two Fort Wainwright soldiers were killed Sunday morning and seven others wounded by the detonation of an improvised explosive device in southern Afghanistan. The Army identified the two soldiers as Master Sgt. Kenneth B. Elwell and Pfc. Tyler M. Springmann. Elwell, 33, of Holland, Penn., had been in the Army since 1997, and previously deployed to Iraq twice, and Bosnia. He had previously been stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, Korea and Fort Benning, Georgia. Springmann, 19, was from Hartland, Maine, and had been in the Army since June of 2010.

An insurgent attack in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan on Sept. 9 has left one Stryker Brigade soldier dead and another wounded. Pfc. Brett Everett Wood, 19, assigned to the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright died of injuries sustained during the attack on his unit, which an involved an improvised explosive device, while on a dismounted patrol according to the U.S. Army. Wood, of Spencer, Ind., was assigned to the 1 st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25 th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright where he served as an infantryman.

A Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson paratrooper died Saturday from injuries he sustained in Afghanistanwhen his vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device. Three other soldiers were also wounded in the attack. U.S. ArmyAlaska spokesperson Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll says Pfc. Nathan Tyler Davis, 20, was driving a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle that was hit in the city of Tore Obeh, in Afghanistan's Khowst province. Davis, of Yucaipa, Calif., served as an infantryman with the 1st Battalion (Airborne)

The Army says a Fort Wainwright soldier was killed in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province Wednesday by the detonation of a pressure-plate improvised explosive device. According to U.S. Army Alaska spokesperson Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll, 26-year-old Sgt. Rodolfo Rodriguez Jr. served as an infantryman with the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright. Rodriguez, from Pharr, Texas, joined the Army in March 2006.

Two Fort Wainwright Strykers died in Afghanistan Wednesday when their unit was hit by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, according to Gov. Sean Parnell's office. U.S. ArmyAlaska spokesperson Lt. Col. Bill Coppernoll says Spc. James R. Burnett Jr., 21, and Pfc. Matthew C. Colin, 32, both served as infantrymen with the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright. Burnett, a native of Wichita, Kan., joined the Army in April 2008, completed basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. and arrived at Fort Wainwright in August 2010.