The Pentagon announced Friday that a soldier from Spring Valley
was killed by a makeshift bomb in northwestern Afghanistan.
Spc. Rafael Martinez Jr., 36, was one of three soldiers from the
Army's 10th Cavalry Regiment who died Thursday when insurgents
attacked their unit.  They were fighting between the villages of
Moqur and Darreh-Ye-Bum, on Afghanistan's hilly border with
Turkmenistan.  Martinez's unit is usually stationed at Fort
Carson, Colo., the Pentagon said