Staff Sgt. Alicia Birchett is the second woman from Massachusetts to be killed while serving in Iraq. CBS
(WBZ)BOSTON A 29-year-old Army sergeant from Mashpee was killed in Iraq last week, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Alicia A. Birchett died Aug. 9 in Baghdad after being injured in a non-combat related accident that happened the day before, officials said.
Details surrounding the incident were not released, but officials said the incident was being investigated.
The wife and mother of three was a 1995 graduate of Falmouth High School before enlisting in the Army in 1996. She was also a member of the Wampanoag indian tribe.
Birchett was assigned to the 887th Engineer Company, 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Sustainment Brigade and the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
A funeral is scheduled for Saturday at the Old Indian Cemetery.
Birchett is the second woman from Massachusetts to die in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
More than 3,700 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. About 60 were from Massachusetts. Another 11 Bay State residents have died in Afghanistan.
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