Aceves, Omar

Staff Sergeant Omar Aceves was a 30-year-old soldier from El Paso, Texas. He served with the 693rd Engineer Company, 7th Engineer Battalion, 10th Sustainment Brigade, based at Fort Drum, New York. His military service included deployments to Afghanistan, the Philippines, and the Horn of Africa.

On January 12, 2011, Aceves was killed in the Gelan district of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province. According to U.S. Department of Defense casualty reports, his death was the result of a hostile incident. Specific details of the engagement were not publicly released by the military.

Aceves died during Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan that began in October 2001. In 2011, the war was in its tenth year, with coalition forces engaged in counterinsurgency operations and training Afghan national security forces. Ghazni Province was a known area of insurgent activity.

The Army posthumously promoted Aceves from the rank of Sergeant to Staff Sergeant. He was survived by his wife and children. His body was returned to the United States, and he was buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in Texas.

Staff Sergeant Aceves is memorialized on the Afghanistan War Memorial at Fort Drum and on online veterans' memorials. He was one of 1,454 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan in 2011, the deadliest year of the war for American forces.

Staff Sergeant Omar Aceves was killed during Operation Enduring Freedom (2001?2014). The conflict concluded in December 2014. See the full roster of those killed in this conflict.

Among those documented in the same conflict: Andrews, Evander Earl, Edmunds, Jonn Joseph, Stonesifer, Kristofor Tif, Davis, Bryant Leroy.

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