A soldier from Sweet Home was injured Dec. 5 in northern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded, killing a fellow soldier from Oregon.
Army Staff Sgt. James McClintock, 35, was en route in a convoy to a location where an improvised explosive device had exploded earlier, said his sister, Tammy Cooper of Sweet Home. He and Specialist Elijah Rao of West Linn, Ore., got out of their Humvee and another bomb exploded, killing Rao, 26,…