Tennessee Honor Vote
Hamburger, Mr Patrick Douglas
Branch: Army
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Years of Service:
27 July 1998 - 6 August 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
Kenneth Lee Ferrell
Lenoir City, TN