The Defense Department has identified one of two soldiers killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq as a 26-year-old North Texan.
Sgt. John J. Savage of Weatherford was assigned to the 103rd Engineer Company, 94th Engineer Company, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
The Pentagon says Savage and 31-year-old Staff Sgt. Solomon T. Sam of Majuro, Marshall Islands, died in the Thursday bombing in Mosul.
Sam was assigned to the 523rd Engineer Company, 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
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