PLANT CITY, Fla. — A Tampa-area soldier who was deployed twice to Iraq has been killed in Afghanistan.
Sgt. Cory L. Clark, 25, of Plant City, died Aug. 28 after an improvised bomb went off in Jaji, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, the Defense Department said.
Clark was assigned to the 585th Engineer Pipeline Company, 864th Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade, based in Fort Lewis, Wash.
Two other soldiers from the same unit also died in the explosion.
Clark’s mother, Wrenita Codrington, said he called a few days ago to tell her about his promotion to sergeant. As an Army engineer, he had been working on cracked...