
ALEXANDRIA BAY, N.Y. — A 10th Mountain Division soldier from upstate New York was killed in Iraq when his vehicle was hit with a roadside bomb, according to the soldier’s family
Pfc. Jack Sweet, 19, of Alexandria Bay, was killed Feb. 8, said his father, Glenn Sweet.
Sweet was a Humvee driver with the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry. Glenn Sweet said his son had always wanted to join the military and planned for a career in the Army. When he was younger, Sweet was a member of the Jefferson County Young Marines.
“He loved what he was doing,” Sweet told The Watertown Daily Times.
Sweet went through basic...