
FREEPORT, Mich. — A Michigan soldier has been killed in Iraq, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.
Army Spc. Dane O. Carver, 20, of Freeport, about 22 miles southeast of Grand Rapids, died Monday in Khalidiyah, Iraq, the department said Wednesday in a news release.
Carver was killed when insurgents attacked his Humvee with small-arms fire.
He was assigned to the Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 125th Infantry Regiment based in Saginaw.
According to Kalamazoo television station WWMT, Carver left for Iraq on June 19 and returned home for 16 days in October. His tour in Iraq was to end in six months.
He was engaged to marry Carla Holwerda of Grand Rapids next Aug. 5, Grand Rapids radio station WOOD-AM reported. She said they met through Carver’s family.
Holwerda, 23, described Carver as an adventurous person who wanted to make a...