Montevideo soldier wounded in Iraq bombing
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(AP) - The parents of a soldier from Montevideo said Monday they've been notified that their son was wounded in a roadside bombing Saturday in Iraq. Sue Winters said her son, Army Sgt. Jared Winters, 27, was on patrol in an armored Humvee near Balad, Iraq, when he was wounded.
Winters said she and her husband, Curtis, were told that her son suffered leg and other injuries. The family was told that two other soldiers in the vehicle were not seriously injured. She said she hoped to speak to him soon and was told he may be flown back to the United States later this week.
She said her son has been in Iraq for nearly a year and his unit was going to be returning to the United States next month.
Jared Winters enlisted in the National Guard just after graduating from Montevideo High School in 1997, went on active duty in the U.S. Army in 2001. He is with the 29th Field Artillery based at Ft. Carson, Colo.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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