Two more Iowa soldiers have been killed in Iraq in separate incidents. An Army Reserve soldier from Lehigh was killed in a vehicle crash in Iraq on Saturday. Sergeant Nathan Field died when a civilian vehicle hit his Humvee. Field was a military policeman with the 4249th Port Security Company, based in Pocahontas. A soldier from North Carolina was also killed in the crash.
Also Saturday, 45-year-old Major Stewart Anderson was among 12 soldiers killed when the Black Hawk helicopter he was in went down in northern Iraq. Anderson was a Minnesota native who had been living in Dubuque. He was on his second tour of duty in Iraq.