Stryker Soldier killed by IED Published Aug. 25, 2011 By USARAK news release JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The U.S. Army Alaska Soldier who died Aug. 19 in Afghanistan has been identified as Pfc. Douglas Leonard Cordo, 20, of Kingston, N. Y. Cordo was killed, and two other Soldiers were wounded, by an improvised explosive device which detonated while they were on a mounted patrol in a Stryker vehicle in the village of Shah Joy, in Afghanistan's Zabul Province. Cordo was the driver of the Stryker vehicle. Cordo joined the Army in March 2010 and graduated from Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Benning, Ga. He arrived in Alaska in July 2010 and was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Fort Wainwright where he served as an infantryman. His 4,000-Soldier brigade deployed to Afghanistan in mid-April for a one-year tour in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.