Army identifies Fort Stewart soldier killed in Fort Irwin training accident

The Army identified Spc. Adrian Bonsey, a 29-year-old combat engineer from New York, as the Fort Stewart soldier killed when an M2 Bradley fighting vehicle struck him during a training exercise at Fort Irwin, California. Bonsey died at about 4:30 a.m. on June 10 while on foot in a training area during hours of limited visibility, and the incident is under investigation.

Bonsey was assigned to the 9th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, based at Fort Stewart, Georgia. Maj. Gen. John Lubas, the division’s commanding general, called the death a devastating loss and said Bonsey was an exceptional soldier committed to the mission.

The Bradley was a 27-ton armored vehicle. Three organizations are investigating the fatality: the Army Combat Readiness Center, the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the U.S. Army Transformation and Training Command.

Bonsey joined the Army in 2023 and had been stationed at Fort Stewart for about two months before the accident. He previously served at Fort Carson, Colorado, and deployed to Poland in 2024. He had earned two Army Achievement Medals during his service.

The crash happened at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, the Army’s premier large-scale combat training site for Armored Brigade Combat Teams. The center was established in 1981 and sits in the Mojave Desert about 35 miles north of Barstow, California. It is used to simulate the demands of major combat deployments, with units moving across expansive terrain in conditions meant to test command, control and battlefield discipline.

Army figures show the service lost 31 soldiers in training accidents in 2025. Since 2020, the Army has averaged roughly two vehicle-related fatalities each month, even as those deaths have trended downward since the mid-2000s.