
LINCOLN PARK, Mich. — Spc. Craig S. Frank, a Michigan National Guard military police officer, was killed in an ambush while guarding a convoy traveling north of Baghdad, his mother says.
The 24-year-old was hit in the back with a rocket-propelled grenade as his unit drove through Beiji, Linda Frank said Sunday. She said they were escorting a convoy coming from Kuwait.
“He never had a chance,” she said.
The Department of Defense could not confirm his death Sunday. But Frank’s family said they received a call about it from an Army casualty liaison officer on Saturday afternoon, and a major with the 210th Military Battalion in Taylor came to their house that day to...