DOD Identifies Army Casualty 13 August The Department of Defense announced the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. Staff Sgt. Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion, 36, from Waikoloa, Hawaii, died Aug. 12, 2018, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near him while he was conducting combat patrol operations in Helmand …