
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Two 21-year-old Stryker brigade soldiers from Fort Lewis have been killed in Iraq, the first reported casualties in June for the post that last month lost 20 soldiers in the country.
Spc. William J. Crouch, 21, of Zachary, La., died Saturday in Al Hadid when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, The Department of Defense said in a release Monday.
On the same day, Cpl. Romel Catalan, 21, of Los Angeles, died in a separate attack in Ameriyah, the department said. He was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.
Catalan enlisted in the Army on July 13, 2004. He trained at Fort Knox in Kentucky...