--- title: "DoD identifies soldier killed in non-combat incident in Afghanistan" date: "2020-05-21" modified: "2020-05-21" authors: - name: "David Roza" job_title: "YouTube Writer/Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/david-roza/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-identifies-soldier-afghanistan-non-combat-incident/" categories: - "Afghanistan" - "Army" - "Around the World" - "Military Branches" - "News" tags: - "central command" - "death" --- # DoD identifies soldier killed in non-combat incident in Afghanistan ![]() The Defense Department has identified a soldier who died in a non-combat incident at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on Tuesday. 1st Lt. Trevarius Ravon Bowman, 25, from Spartanburg, South Carolina, was assigned to Company B, 198th Signal Battalion, 261st Signal Brigade, the Pentagon said in a press release. Bowman's unit was attached to the 228th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade, South Carolina National Guard. The incident is currently under investigation. No other details were available other than that the Bowman was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. “It is with heavy hearts and deepest condolences that we announce the passing of 1LT Trevarius Bowman," wrote Maj. Gen. Van McCarty, the adjutant general for the South Carolina Army National Guard, in a [tweet]() on Thursday. "This is never an outcome we as Soldiers, leaders, and Family members wish to experience." “Please keep the service members in his unit in your thoughts and prayers, as well as his Family, as they work through this difficult time,” he added. Bowman's current awards include the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Commendation Medal and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, a spokesperson for the South Carolina National Guard told Task & Purpose in an email. ## Author David Roza writes scripts about military news for the Task & Purpose YouTube channel, and he also writes articles about military pay, benefits, health care, child care, culture, and other personnel topics on a freelance basis. Roza previously covered the Air Force and Space Force for Task & Purpose from 2019 to 2023 and for Air & Space Forces Magazine from 2023 to 2025. In the course of that reporting, he has set off a ‘Hollywood explosion’ with Air Force bomb techs, turned the (unarmed) keys of a nuclear missile bunker, hovered over the Nevada desert on an Air Force rescue helicopter, and got the best sleep of his life on the floor of a C-17 over the central Pacific. Share tips and story ideas with David at [david.roza@teamrecurrent.io]()