
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A Louisiana soldier with one of Fort Lewis’ two Stryker brigades in Iraq has been killed, the Defense Department said Monday.
Cpl. William J. Crouch, 21, of Zachary, La., died Saturday in Hadid when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle.
Crouch was a cavalry scout with the 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, south of Tacoma.
He joined the Army his senior year in high school. His desire to serve came from his father, James Crouch, a Baton Rouge policeman who died of natural causes when Crouch was 13, his mother, Kathy Rushing, said.
He wanted to be “in the...