HONOLULU \u2014 The soldier who died during a training exercise in Hawaii was a 26-year-old combat engineer from Mississippi, the U.S. Army said Friday.
Dukes was assigned to the 65th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks in central Oahu. He enlisted in the Army in August 2010, the Army said. He previously served in Germany and Colorado and moved to Schofield Barracks in December 2014. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hawaii Gov. David Ige extended his condolences to the soldier’s family, and to “those who served alongside that soldier.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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