US Army: Specialist Nickolas S. Welch

Specialist Nickolas S. Welch, twenty-six of Mill City, Oregon, died on August 6, in Bethesda, Maryland.

He was wounded on July 23, when a suicide bomber attacked his unit's convoy, in Soltan Kheyl, Afghanistan.

Three other soldiers were killed in the attack.

Welch was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division out of Fort Stewart, Georgia.