Seth R. Trahan
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Age: 20
From: Crowley, La.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment, Louisiana Army National Guard, Crowley, La.
Incident: Army Spc. Seth R. Trahan was killed Feb. 19 when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on patrol in Baghdad.
Died: February 19, 2005
Louisiana soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
CROWLEY, La. — A 20-year-old soldier with Louisiana’s 256th Brigade Combat Team was killed in Iraq when he was struck by an improvised explosive device, the Louisiana National Guard said on Sunday.
Details about the death of Sgt. Seth Randell Trahan, who was killed Saturday, were not immediately released and his mourning Crowley family declined to speak with reporters over the weekend.
Trahan served with the Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 256th Brigade Combat Team, a Lafayette-based brigade that shipped about 4,000 soldiers to Iraq in November.
Since January, the 256th has lost eight soldiers, including six Guardsmen who died Jan. 6 when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb.
In Iraq, the military reported that the only U.S. soldier killed in Iraq on Saturday was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad.
On Saturday, eight suicide bombers...
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