Scott D. Dykman dies of injuries from I.E.D.

Army officials on Friday identified a Fort Richardson soldier killed in Iraq this week.

Spc. Scott Dykman, 27, of Helena, Mont., was killed by a roadside bomb while on foot patrol south of Baghdad near Jurf al Sakhar on Tuesday, Alaska time, U.S. Army spokesman Maj. Kirk Gohlke said.

Dykman joined the Army in September 2003 and was assigned to Fort Richardson in July 2006.

Four other soldiers were injured in the incident, three seriously. Their identities have not been released. The injured soldiers were evacuated to a military hospital in Iraq for treatment, Gohlke said.

The death brings to six the number of dead from the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, a 3,500-member unit out of Fort Richardson that left for a year-long deployment to Iraq in October. The unit had its first deaths in mid-December when five soldiers died in the span of a week.

The news comes as President Bush is in the midst of reviewing his policy on Iraq after months of escalating violence in the country.

About 3,800 Alaska-based 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldiers who left for the war zone in late summer 2005 recently returned. Twenty-six soldiers in that brigade died in Iraq.

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