Army Sgt. Joshua Barrett Madden, 21, of Webster Parish, La., was one of five Schofield Barracks soldiers killed yesterday by a roadside bomb near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Madden was with the 25th Infantry Division. Family photo via The (Shreveport, La.) Times

Sgt. Joshua Barrett Madden, of Webster Parish, was killed by a roadside bomb detonated near the group. They were conducting combat operations near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

"He just got back to Iraq Sunday," said his father, Jerry Madden, a music minister who until recently lived in Sibley, La., told The Times. "We put him on the airplane in Shreveport" on Friday morning.

Joshua Madden joined the Army in June 2003, shortly after graduating from Minden High School. The member of the 25th Infantry Division served one tour in Iraq, got married in October 2005 and was the father of a 3-month-old son, Jerry Madden said. Josh Madden would have mustered out of Army service in June.

The soldier's mother is Cindy Madden, a well-known music teacher for several schools in the Minden, La. area. He has three older siblings who survive him, Jennifer Banamati, David C. Madden and Kevin D. Madden.