The Pentagon says a 21-year-old soldier from the suburban Buffalo has been killed by insurgents in the Afghanistan.
The Department of the Defense announced Saturday that Spc. Blake D. Whipple of Williamsville died Friday in Ghazni province of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device.
He was assigned to the Army's 7th Engineering Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum in the northern New York.
The soldier's parents, David and Kim Whipple, told Buffalo media outlets that their son was a combat engineer assigned to clear roads of IEDs.
Whipple was a a 2007 graduate of Williamsville East High School. David Whipple said his son joined the Army in early 2009 after attending three western New York colleges.
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