
The Pentagon has identified two Fort Hood soldiers as killed in action during an attack on their convoy vehicle in Iraq.
Army Spc. Ervin Caradine Jr., 33, of Memphis, Tenn., and Pvt. Jeremy L. Drexler, 23, of Topeka, Kan., died in the May 2 attack in Baghdad.
A Pentagon statement said the pair died when an improvised grenade hit their vehicle. The Army is investigating the attack, the statement said.
Caradine and Drexler were assigned to the 91st Engineer Battalion of Fort Hood’s 1st Cavalry Division, according to the statement.
Two Army chaplains told Caradine’s wife, Montessia Caradine, of his death Sunday morning at her home near Fort...