A Private First Class assigned to Fort Stewart, Georgia, died in an automobile mishap in Colorado at local. The Soldier was on leave when the vehicle he was riding in crashed. The unit currently has limited information and is awaiting the police report from authorities in Colorado. Additional information is currently unavailable.
Since FY21, the Army has lost an average of 36 Soldiers a year to off-duty automobile mishaps. This was the 16th off-duty automobile fatality of FY26 and below the number of fatalities for this same time last year.