{"id":322963,"date":"2026-06-04T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:47:13","slug":"us-army-soldier-killed-in-iraq-training-accident-idd-as-texas-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/322963\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army soldier killed in Iraq training accident ID’d as Texas resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of War has identified a U.S. Army soldier killed overseas<\/a> as Sergeant Devin A. Seibel of Robinson, Texas.<\/p>\n

Seibel, 26, died at Erbil Airbase in northern Iraq during a training-related incident on May 31, the defense department announced in a June 3 news release. He was assigned to the Air Ambulance Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, in Fort Carson, Colorado.<\/p>\n

According to the defense department, Seibel was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seibel was one of two soldiers killed in the training incident, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

An Iraqi army Humvee stands guard near the U.S. Embassy, after Iraqi security sources said the embassy was hit in a missile attack, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

United Kingdom defense officials said a British soldier also died<\/a>. The country’s Ministry of Defense identified the solider as\u00a0Lance Corporal Freeman. He was 29.<\/p>\n

Officials have not released additional information about how the soldiers died, but said the incident was under investigation.<\/p>\n

USA TODAY has reached out to the U.S. Army for more information.<\/p>\n

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Army sergeant killed oversees identified as 26-year-old Texas resident<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of War has identified a U.S. Army soldier killed overseas as Sergeant Devin A. Seibel of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115513,115517,115515,29871,5766,115514,27,29,28,115516,55750],"class_list":["post-322963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-air-ambulance-company","tag-british-soldier","tag-combat-aviation-brigade","tag-defense-department","tag-robinson","tag-sergeant-devin-a-seibel","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-training-related","tag-u-s-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}