In those slain in the Kentucky chopper tragedy was a LA soldier.
According to Army sources, one of the nine Army personnel killed when two Black Hawk helicopters collided throughout a training exercise near Fort Campbell in Kentucky was a Los Angeles resident.
Nine soldiers who died during routine training in southern Kentucky on Wednesday night have been identified by the U.S. Army.
All occupants of two Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopters that crashed in Trigg County during midnight training perished.
List killed were:
- Warrant Officer 1 Jeffery Barnes, 33, of Milton, Florida
- Cpl. Emilie Marie Eve Bolanos, 23, of Austin, Texas
- Chief Warrant Officer 2 Zachary Esparza, 36, of Jackson, Missouri
- Staff Sgt. Joshua C. Gore, 25, of Morehead City, North Carolina
- Warrant Officer 1 Aaron Healy, 32, of Cape Coral, Florida
- Staff Sgt. Taylor Mitchell, 30, of Mountain Brook, Alabama
- Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rusten Smith, 32, of Rolla, Missouri
- Sgt. David Solinas Jr, 23, of Oradell, New Jersey.
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