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Pentagon identifies soldier killed in bomb blast outside of Mosul

April 30, 2017 at 7:25 p.m. EDT

The Pentagon has identified the soldier killed by a roadside bomb outside the Iraqi city of Mosul Saturday.

First Lt. Weston C. Lee, 25, of Bluffton, Ga., was an infantry officer from the 82nd Airborne Division and was on patrol at the time of his death, according to an emailed statement from his unit.