POSTED: Saturday, February 13, 2010 - 10:15am
UPDATED: Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 12:35pm
A soldier from San Benito has been killed in Iraq. The Department of Defense says Army Private First Class Adriana Alvarez died on Wednesday. T
The 20 year-old soldier graduated from San Benito high school and enlisted into the Army after graduation. The cause of her death remains under investigation and Alvarez is the first female soldier from the Valley to die in the Iraq war.