
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky Guardsman was killed in Iraq this week during a rocket-propelled grenade attack, the National Guard said Thursday.
Spc. Michael Ray Hayes, 29, of Morgantown, was with a group of Guardsmen providing security around a possible improvised explosive device near Baghdad on Tuesday when they were attacked, Brig. Gen. Norman Arflack said. Four other soldiers were injured in the blast but were treated and returned to duty. The exact location of the attack was uncertain, said Arflack, Kentucky’s deputy adjutant general.
“The loss of Specialist Hayes reminds us that we’re involved in a serious business,” Arflack told reporters at a...