Angleton soldier wounded in Iraq

Angleton soldier wounded in Iraq

By John Lowman
The Facts

Published May 15, 2008

Leadership skills learned at West Point, and in part as a linebacker with the Angleton High School Wildcats football team, might have helped save the lives of Clayton Henchman’s troops.

And his own.

U.S. Army First Lt. Henchman, 25, was leading a platoon of soldiers near Tikrit, Iraq, when he and eight others were wounded by an improvised explosive device Saturday, said his brother, Scott Cooper.