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Soldier From Rockville Killed in Afghanistan
posted 5:29 pm Tue June 24, 2008 - ROCKVILLE, Md.
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The Pentagon says a Rockville soldier was one of four killed in Kandahar City, Afghanistan when their vehicle met an IED and small arms fire. Forty-one-year-old Lieutenant Colonel James J. Walton was assigned to a Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas. He died Saturday when a roadside bomb hit a coalition convoy, the Department of Defense (web) says.
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