A 29-year-old Fort Lewis soldier on her second tour of duty in Iraq died Wednesday in what the Department of Defense is calling a noncombat incident, according to a news release issued Friday.

Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador, of Colonie, N.Y., died in Kirkush, the release said. She was a member of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division – the Army’s original Stryker brigade – which deployed to Iraq in August for the third time since 2003.

Tirador was assigned to the 209th Military Intelligence Company. Family members said she worked as an Arabic-speaking interrogator.

According to unit records, she enlisted in March 1999 and reported to Fort Lewis in January 2008. Along the way, she was trained and served as a medic, a tracked-vehicle driver and mechanic, and finally as a military intelligence collector with Arabic-language training.

In 2004, she was credited with saving an American soldier shot during a convoy mission, according to military reports cited by her hometown newspaper, the Albany Times Union.

“I’m very proud of my daughter,” her father, Gerard Seyboth, told the Times Union on Thursday.

She met her husband, Mickey, while stationed in Germany, and they married two years ago, according to the newspaper.

Tirador is the third member of the 3rd Brigade to die on this deployment, none in hostile incidents. Staff Sgt. Todd W. Selge and Sgt. Jordan M. Shay died Sept. 3 in a Stryker vehicle rollover.

Tirador is the sixth woman from Fort Lewis to die in either Iraq or Afghanistan since the wars began, and the first since September 2006.

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