
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — A lieutenant from Virginia was identified as one of two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division killed Saturday in northern Iraq in a roadside bombing.
1st Lt. Joshua C. Hurley, 24, of Clifton Forge, Va., and Spc. Maurice Johnson, 21, of Levittown, Penn., were both killed in Mosul when the Humvee they were riding in was hit by an improvised explosive device. Hurley was assigned to the 101st’s 326th Engineer Battalion and Johnson to the 501st Signal Battalion.
The 101st is based at Fort Campbell, Ky., on the Tennessee border about 50 miles northwest of Nashville.
In Clifton Forge, Hurley was remembered as a dedicated man who loved his family...