JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska—U.S. Army officials have identified two soldiers killed when their large transport vehicle crashed while heading to a training area in interior Alaska.
There were among 17 soldiers on board the vehicle that flipped when the driver lost control on a dirt road leading to the Yukon Training Area near the community of Salcha, or about 30 miles southeast of Fairbanks, officials said earlier. Twelve other soldiers were injured.