Lewis McChord solider killed in Afghanistan - NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash.-The Army has confirmed a soldier killed in Afghanistan is from Joint Base Lewis-McChord.         

A base spokesman says Sgt. Nicholas M. Dickhut, 23, of Rochester, Minnesota died Monday from wounds from an enemy attack on his unit. 

Dickhut belonged to 3rd Stryker Brigade deployed in December.

He enlisted in 2008 and was deployed in Iraq in 2009.