An airman based at Peterson Air Force Base has been killed in Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense announced Saturday that Capt. David I. Lyon, 28, of Sandpoint, Idaho, died Friday from wounds suffered when his vehicle was attacked with an improvised explosive device in Kabul.

He was assigned to the 21st Logistics Readiness Squadron, based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.

Lyon, a five-year veteran of the Air Force, was an Air Force Academy graduate and has been stationed at Peterson since January 2010.

He was scheduled to return to Peterson in February.

Lyon was performing a combat advisory mission with Afghan National Army Commandos, while working with Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan.