Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The Minnesota National Guard has identified the three soldiers who were killed in last week's helicopter crash as having returned in May from a nine-month deployment to the Middle East.
The National Guard identified in a statement the three soldiers who died in Thursday's Black Hawk helicopter crash as Chief Warrant Officers James A. Rogers Jr., 28, and Charles P. Nord, 30, and Sgt. Kort M. Plantenberg, 28.