SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Defense Department says a 24-year-old soldier from Salinas was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials say Army Spc. Ricardo Cerros Jr. was mortally wounded by small arms fire Saturday when his unit attacked insurgents barricaded in a compound in Afghanistan’s Logar Province.
The Army ranger was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
The Monterey County Herald (http://bit.ly/rptqMT ) reports that Cerros graduated from Everett Alvarez High School in Salinas and University of California, Irvine before enlisting in the Army in July 2010.
