HONOLULU -- The Army announced Wednesday that a soldier based at Schofield Barracks was killed this week during a patrol.

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Cpl. David M. Fraise, 24, of New Orleans, La., died June 7 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when an explosive device hit his patrol.

Fraise (pictured, right) was assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion. He was working on Operation Enduring Freedom, officials said.

Teams are investigating what happened in the attack.

Fraise had been married less than a year. His wife and 6-month-old daughter live in housing on base at Schofield Barracks.

Fraise's family members say it's time to bring the entire troops home.

"As far as I'm concerned, we need to get them out of there. When they say it hits home, it hits home. I never knew what those other families were feeling until now, but it hits home," Fraise's aunt, Connie Craig, said.

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His unit left for Afghanistan last month. He was assigned to Hawaii in 2001.

Fraise's body is now in Hawaii. It will later be flown to New Orleans for burial.

This is the 13th Hawaii-related death in the Middle East since the war in Afghanistan and Iraq began. He is the first combat-related death in Afghanistan. Another Schofield soldier was killed in Afghanistan during a routine training mission.