
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A 19-year-old military policeman serving his first tour in Iraq has been killed in an explosion at a security checkpoint, the Army said April 24.
Pfc. Jeffrey A. Avery died April 23 in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, from wounds suffered when a bomb exploded during checkpoint operations, the Department of Defense said in a news release.
Avery was assigned to the 571st Military Police Company, 504th Military Police Battalion, 42nd Military Police Brigade, at Fort Lewis. He arrived in Muqdadiyah last December.
The soldier is the second from his company to die in Iraq. Spc. Anthony A. Kaiser, 27, of Narrowsburg,...