A second soldier from U.S. Army Alaska has died in a motorcycle crash, the second such fatality in a week, officials announced Friday.
Daniels, who was assigned to Fort Wainwright, was taken to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital just after midnight, where he was pronounced dead.
Daniels, 32, was a military policeman with the 28th Military Police Company. He joined the Army in July 2005 from Gurnee, Illinois. He trained at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and was assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, and Fort Stewart, Georgia, before reporting to Fort Wainwright in March 2013.
He served three combat tours totaling 26 months in Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Daniels is the second Alaska-based soldier to die in a motorcycle crash in as many days.
Spc. Frederick Jenkins III, 24, died Monday evening after his motorcycle crashed in a tunnel on the Portage Glacier Highway.
Jenkins, an information technology specialist, was assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
It was a deadly week for soldiers, with the Army reporting at least six soldier deaths.
Pfc. Holden Jeffrey Philbrook, a 19-year-old stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, also died in a motorcycle accident. Local police on Friday filed charges against the other driver involved in that accident.
In addition, three soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, died in a three-day span.
Warrant Officer Sean Michael Young, 35, died Sunday of an apparent gunshot wound at his off-post residence; Capt. Lakito Tarraze Bynum, 36, died Saturday while serving with a civil affairs team in El Salvador; and Spc. Jason Darryl Kane, 24, died Monday after the pickup truck he was riding in crashed en route to a hospital.
