The Defense Department today has released the identities of 13 soldiers killed in an attack on a dining tent in Mosul, Iraq, on Tuesday. Six of those identified were based at Fort Lewis and assigned to the Stryker Brigade Combat Team. They are:
--Captain William W- Jacobsen Junior, age 31, of Charlotte, North Carolina.
--Staff Sergeant Julian S- Melo, age 47, of Brooklyn, New York.
--Staff Sergeant Darren D- VanKomen, age 33, of Bluefield, West Virginia.
--Staff Sergeant Robert S- Johnson, age 23, of Castro Valley, Calif.
--Specialist Jonathan Castro, age 21, of Corona, Calif.
--Private First Class Lionel Ayro, age 22, of Jeanerette, Louisiana.
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