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Iowa soldier, Army Capt. killed in Afghanistan
The military says an Iowan was one of two soldiers killed this week when enemy forces attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense says 28-year-old Army Capt. Daniel Whitten, of Grimes, and 20-year-old Pfc. Zachary Lovejoy, of Albuquerque, N.M., died of wounds suffered in the blast on Tuesday in Zabul province.
They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division out of Fort Bragg, N.C.
Whitten's wife, Starr, told The Des Moines Register that her husband was a graduate of Johnston High School and the U.S. Military Academy. He was on his third deployment in four years of marriage.
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