By Alabama Public Radio
San Antonio, TX – A national guard soldier from west Alabama died after being injured in an explosion in Iraq. Staff Sergeant Tommy Little of Aliceville died Monday. Little served in the Mississippi Army National Guard and was assigned to Battery A, Second Battalion, 114th Field Artillery in Columbus. He and four other soldiers were wounded April 19th when a roadside bomb exploded as their vehicle went by. A Guard spokesperson says Little was being treated at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas when he died.