Tennessee Honor Vote
Hamburger, Mr Patrick Douglas
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Years of Service:
July 27, 1998 - August 6, 2011
Patrick enrolled in the NE Army National Guard at the age of 17. He originally worked in the motor pool. He then went to Apache School and became a mechanic. He later went to Chinook School. He went Full-time Army Aviation and became a Flight Engineer and had his own crew and Chinook. Upon being deployed to Afghanistan, he was pulled from his unit and put with a group of Army Aviation Men whose job was to get a special group of Rangers and Seal Team 6 in and out of battle. Extortion 17 was shot down killing Pat and everyone on board on 8/6/2011.
Honored by
Shaune Terese Hamburger
Knoxville, TN