2 soldiers dead, 12 hurt in military-vehicle rollover near Salcha

Two Fort Wainwright-based soldiers were killed and a dozen others were injured Monday, in a military vehicle crash near Salcha. John Pennell, a spokesman for the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, said the two soldiers who died were among 17 in a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle that crashed on the way to the Army’s Yukon Training Area Monday morning. “There was a driver and assistant driver and then 15 soldiers were travelling in the back in the transport area, and at some point the vehicle left the road and turned over,”...