Hilda I. Ortiz Clayton[b] (May 21, 1991 – July 2, 2013) was a U.S. Army combat photographer who was killed in 2013 when a mortar accidentally exploded during an Afghan training exercise.

[2] Ortiz Clayton was the first combat documentation and production specialist to be killed in Afghanistan.

[4] On July 2, 2013, Ortiz Clayton, who was then a visual information specialist with 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), was photographing the training of Afghan National Army soldiers at Jalalabad, Laghman Province, Afghanistan.

[11] Ortiz Clayton's photograph was made public in the U.S. Army's Military Review in May 2017 by permission of her family and received widespread press attention from, among others, The New York Times, Time magazine and the BBC.

She was buried in the Veterans Plot section of the Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Augusta, Georgia.