According to the Monday statement, Talamantez was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
Fort Hood soldier from South Texas killed in Iraq
FORT HOOD, TX
An Army statement says Sgt. Steven L. Talamantez of Laredo died
Sunday of wounds from an enemy mortar attack on his unit in Al
Amarah in southeastern Iraq, near the Iranian border.