It has only been a few days since the Army National Guard announced the “non-combat” deaths of two soldiers in Iraq and details about the incidents are still limited.
But the Georgia National Guard and their families have offered some more detail about their deaths.
The Georgia National Guard stated Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni and Spc. Owen James Elliott both died in Baghdad but that is not where at least one of the soldiers was injured before he died.
Spc. Travis Jordan Pameni died in Baghdad after an incident in another undisclosed location, according to CBS.
Pameni was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, which deployed to an undisclosed location in the Middle East in April.
According to his wife, Nasiah Pameni, they were just two months shy of celebrating their first wedding anniversary.
“I never thought I’d be writing this,” she wrote. “It was supposed to be us against the world. I can’t believe I’ll never hug you again, kiss you again, breathe the same air as you.”
“You have given me the greatest 4 years anyone could ask for,” she added in her Facebook tribute.
Travis Jordan Pameni was 23 years old and from Douglasville, Georgia.Spc. Owen James Elliott was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery Regiment, and deployed to the Middle East in December.
The Savannah-based unit was focused on air defense artillery, according to the Georgia National Guard.
His social media revealed he died just a few days shy of his son’s first birthday which occurred on August 2nd.
Elliott’s mother, Sandie Elliott, shared the last photos he sent her from his deployment before he died.
“For a brief second when I was told they were flying him home I had joy, then I realized she was talking about his body,” Elliott’s mother, Sandie Elliott, wrote on Facebook in a post.
“I know I’ll never hug my baby again,” she added.
The Georgia National Guard only stated his death occurred in Baghdad in an unrelated incident to the one that claimed the life of Pameni.
Elliott, who was also 23, was from Twin City, Georgia.
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