Joshua Peppers, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana, was injured this week in Afghanistan.

Peppers, 27, stepped on an improvised explosive device while on patrol. He's being treated in Afghanistan but his mother said he will be flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Maryland.

"Yesterday I was informed that he had stepped on the IED and that he lost his leg," Rae Peppers told The Billings Gazette. "But it sounds like he was pretty fortunate and they just had to amputate his foot."

Peppers was deployed to Afghanistan in February on his first tour there.

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Lame Deer soldier injured by IED explosion in Afghanistan (The Billings Gazette 8/2)