(AP) — TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The Pentagon says a soldier from northern Michigan has been killed in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense said in a statement that 22-year-old Sgt. Dillon B. Foxx of Traverse City died Friday in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit using an improvised explosive device.
Foxx is the 21st serviceman with known ties to Michigan who has died in the conflict in Afghanistan, and the second this year.