Injured Crawford County Soldier is Recuperating

(Bethesda) A soldier from Crawford County is on the road to recovery after getting critically injured last month in Afghanistan by an explosive.

Reports say Staff Sgt. Ian Ives of Cuba is reportedly alert, talking and making his own decisions.

Ives is a 2011 graduate of Missouri Military Academy in central Missouri’s Mexico.

He is being treated at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.