{"id":23612,"date":"2026-06-04T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/army-identifies-soldier-killed-in-training-accident-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:22:09","slug":"army-identifies-soldier-killed-in-training-accident-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/army-identifies-soldier-killed-in-training-accident-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Army identifies soldier killed in training accident in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has identified the American soldier who died Sunday, along with a British Army soldier, during a military training accident in Iraq. Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, of Robinson, Texas, died on May 31 at Erbil Airbase in what the Pentagon called a &ldquo;training-related incident,&rdquo; according to a statement released late Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5909137-army-soldier-dies-iraq-training-identified\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has identified the American soldier who died Sunday, along with a British Army soldier, during a military training accident in Iraq. Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, of Robinson, Texas, died on May 31 at Erbil Airbase in what the Pentagon called a &ldquo;training-related incident,&rdquo; according to a statement released late Wednesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}