
A West Point graduate from northern Indiana and an Indiana National Guardsman both died in Iraq, military officials said April 4.
Army 1st Lt. Neale Shank of Fort Wayne died April 2 in Baghdad, and National Guard Staff Sgt. Bradley King of LaFontaine died April 3.
The death of 25-year-old Shank was not related to combat and was being investigated, the Department of Defense said April 4. King, 28, was fatally injured by an improvised explosive device during combat operations in Al Amiriyah, National Guard officials said.
Shank enlisted in the Army after graduating from Fort Wayne's Concordia Lutheran High School in 1999, then was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy, graduating in 2005. He left in...