Steven E Auchman

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — A 37-year-old airman from upstate New York who was sent to Iraq last month has been killed in an attack, the Defense Department said Wednesday.

Master Sgt. Steven E. Auchman, of Waterloo, died Tuesday from injuries sustained when multiple rocket-propelled grenades struck his location in Mosul, Pentagon officials said. U.S. and Iraqi forces in that northern Iraq city recently clashed with gunmen, with two attacks against American military convoys.

Auchman joined the Air Force in 1985. He worked in radio maintenance, and in February was assigned to the 5th Air Support Operations Squadron based at Fort Lewis, an Army post about 30 miles south of Seattle....