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Flags ordered to half-staff on Friday to honor fallen Fort Campbell soldier

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered flags at all state buildings lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset on June 27 in honor of a Fort Campbell soldier who died in an aviation accident.

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Officials say U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Dustin Kelly Wright, 40, of Woodlawn, Tennessee, died as a result of wounds from an AH-64 Apache helicopter training accident at Fort Campbell on June 11. Wright was assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).

Gov. Beshear says Wright will be interred at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West in Hopkinsville on Friday.

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