
FORT RILEY, Kan. — An officer with the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley was killed Friday in Iraq.
Second Lt. Brian D. Smith, 30, of McKinney, Texas, was shot while conducting combat operations in Habbaniyah, Iraq, military officials at Fort Riley said Tuesday. Thirty-eight soldiers from Fort Riley have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.
Smith was a platoon leader of Company A, 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment. He had been stationed at Fort Riley since December and deployed to Iraq in January. He was commissioned in the Army in June 2003.
After growing up in McKinney, Smith graduated from law school at Baylor University in 1998. He had...