LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Funeral services are scheduled for a Nebraska Army National Guard soldier who died aboard a downed helicopter in Afghanistan.
Thirty-year-old Sgt. Patrick Hamburger was among 30 Americans and eight Afghans who died Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a Taliban insurgent downed their Chinook helicopter enroute to a combat mission. Wyuka Funeral Home and Cemetery in Lincoln says Hamburger’s funeral will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Christ’s Place Church in Lincoln. Burial will be at Wyuka Cemetery. Hamburger was a flight engineer with the National Guard’s Company B, 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation unit based in Grand Island. He grew up in Lincoln and had been a member of the National Guard since 1998. He was in Afghanistan less than two weeks before his death.