DOD/108th Public Affairs Detachment(KUWAIT CITY) An American soldier was killed in a non-combat rollover accident in Kuwait, U.S. officials said late Friday.
Spc. Jayson Reed Haven, 20, of Aiken, South Carolina, died from a rollover accident that occurred in a non-combat situation on Thursday at Camp Buehring in the northwestern desert of Kuwait, about 20 miles from the southern border of Iraq.
The fatal incident remains under investigation, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Defense. Further details were not immediately available.
The news of Haven s death came just days before Memorial Day, a federal holiday for honoring and mourning those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
"There are no words that can adequately express how deeply saddened I am at the loss of one of our own," Maj. Gen. Van McCarty told Haven s hometown newspaper, the Aiken Standard. "SPC Jayson R. Haven was more than just a member of the South C
A 20-year-old U.S. soldier died in Kuwait in a non-combat vehicle rollover accident while supporting the U.S. military's Operation Spartan Shield task force