4 Arkansans Injured In Baghdad Mortar Attack
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Four members of a Magnolia-based National Guard
company are among those wounded in a Baghdad mortar attack.
Army officials say the injuries to the four members of Delta
Company, Third Battalion, 153rd Infantry are NOT life threatening.
The attack occurred Monday.
The injured were identified as Staff Sergeant Arthur "Art"
Stokenbury, Staff Sergeant Thomas Labit, Specialist Pete Hildreth
and Specialist Ash Ritchie.
Hildreth and Ritchie were treated for minor wounds received
during the early morning attack and released.
Stokenbury and Labit sustained more serious wounds.
Another soldier was killed in the attack and four others were
injured.
