
KAPLAN, La. — Todd Mallet didn’t think his younger brother, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Toby Wayne Mallet, would be able to handle military life.
“I’d tell him, ‘Aw, you won’t be able to listen to them. There was no way you could follow orders,”’ the older brother recalled saying to his sibling, who enlisted in 1995. “He said, ‘Oh, I can do it. I can do it.’ And he did a good job at what he did.”
Toby Wayne Mallet died in Iraq on Friday when his convoy was ambushed in Baghdad. The Department of Defense announced his death Tuesday.
Mallet, 26, was killed when the M-2 Bradley vehicle he was patrolling in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, said Martha Rudd, Army public...