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New details into Weslaco soldier's death

Posted: 09.17.2011 at 2:30 PM

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(AP) -- Authorities confirm insurgents using an improvised land mine killed Weslaco soldier Rodolfo Rodriguez Jr. in Afghanistan Wednesday.

Rodriguez, 26, was based at Fort Wainwright in Alaska.

He joined the Army in March 2006.

The infantryman was assigned in March 2010 to the 25th Infantry Division at the Alaska base.

About 4,000 soldiers from the brigade deployed for a year's tour in Afghanistan in April.

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