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AP:

Western Wisconsin soldier killed in Afghanistan

LADYSMITH, Wis. (AP) -- A 28-year-old soldier who liked the outdoors and thought about working in law enforcement was killed in Afghanistan, friends and the military said Friday.

Staff Sgt. Patrick L. Lybert is the second soldier who went to Ladysmith High School to die in combat in the past two months.

Lybert was killed on Wednesday with another soldier in Gowardesh when they encountered enemy forces using small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.

Lybert and Sgt. 1st Class Jared C. Monti, 30, of Raynham, Mass., were members of the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), out of Fort Drum, N.Y.

Last month another Wisconsin soldier, Army Sgt. Nathan J. Vacho, was killed by an explosive device in Iraq. He was a 1995 graduate of Ladysmith High School.