
SOPERTON, Ga — A middle Georgia soldier was killed during an ambush while he was on night patrol at the Baghdad airport in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Army Sgt. Michael Tyrone Crockett, 27, of Soperton, was returning from an overnight patrol Monday when his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades. Ten other soldiers in the convoy were wounded, three seriously.
Crockett was in a 2½-ton truck that was hit by a grenade, said his wife, Tracey Crockett, who had talked to Army officials. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division based out of Fort Stewart.
She found out her husband had been killed...