Fort Wainwright

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.

On Sunday evening, near Delta Junction, a Fort Wainwright soldier died after the privately owned airplane he was flying crashed. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eric C. Corl, 28, of Fairbanks died while en route to Anchorage via MEDEVAC. Corl, a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot, was assigned to D Company, 123rd Aviation, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright. He joined the Army in June 2004, attended the Warrant Officer Candidate School and UH-60 Aviator Qualification Course at Fort Rucker, Ala. before arriving at Fort Wainwright in February 2006.

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.

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.

The Army has named the Fort Wainwright soldier who died after receiving a severe head injury Sunday. U.S. Army Alaska spokesperson Charles Canterbury says Spc. Marvin Kenneth Scott, 21, was found in his barracks room early Sunday morning. He was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, where he was subsequently pronounced dead. Scott was assigned to Fort Wainwright's 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment as an air traffic control operator. He joined the Army in 2008, completing basic training and air traffic controller training before arriving at Fort Wainwright in mid-2009.

A Fort Wainwright soldier struck by a truck hauling logs in a January Richardson Highway crash at a lodge near Salcha died of his injuries Wednesday, according to the Army. U.S. Army Alaska spokesperson John Pennell says Spc. Zachary New, 21, died at the Audie L. Murphy Veterans Affairs Hospital's Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center in San Antonio, Texas. He was a member of the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, reporting to Fort Wainwright in October 2010 and deploying with the unit to Afghanistan from April 2011 to April 2012.

In early March, the Elkins family received an early morning call from Afghanistan where their 23-year old son James, was serving in his first deployment. James Elkins, a platoon leader with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Wainwright, deployed in January. The third generation Alaskan had wanted to serve in the military since high school. “You get a phone call at 1 a.m. you pretty much expect nothing good,” said Brent Elkins, James' father.

A Fort Wainwright solider and a Fairbanks woman were killed Friday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash on the Parks Highway, according to Alaska State Troopers. 25-year-old Shawn Dugan, of Homestead, Iowa, and 33-year-old Sandy Graetzch were declared dead on the scene after he lost control in a hilly section near Milepost 336.5 on the Parks Highway. The crash happened just before 3:30 p.m. Friday and troopers said Dugan slid in front of a Chevy Avalanche heading northbound and the pickup truck ended up t-boning the car. The people inside the truck were treated for non-life threatening injuries.

by Channel 2 News staff Sunday, October 26, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Pvt. Cody Eggleston, who was stationed at Fort Wainwright, died Friday at a Maryland Naval medical center. Eggleston was wounded during a mortar attack in Iraq on Oct. 16. He is the second soldier to die from the attack. The 21-year-old was originally from Eugene, Ore., but after completing basic training in 2007 he was stationed at Fort Wainwright.