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Two Mississippi National Guardsmen on Friday were killed in a military helicopter crash that is under investigation, the Mississippi National Guard said in a news release.

Emergency crews were on the scene of a helicopter crash in a rural area just north of Baldwyn.

Two National Guardsmen are dead after a military helicopter crashed in northeast Mississippi on Friday afternoon during a routine training flight, officials said. Both Guardsmen on board the helicopter died, according to Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves.

Two unidentified Mississippi National Guard members were killed Friday when the helicopter they were in crashed Friday, Gov. Tate Reeves said.

(NEW YORK) — Two National Guardsmen are dead after a military helicopter crashed in northeast Mississippi on Friday afternoon during a routine training flight, officials said. The AH-64 Apache crashed around 2 p.m. in a wooded area near Boonville in Prentiss County, according to the […]

Two Mississippi National Guardsmen on Friday were killed in a military helicopter crash that is under investigation.

Two National Guardsmen are dead after their military helicopter crashed in northeast Mississippi during a routine training flight on Friday, officials said. The soldiers were identified by state officials on Saturday as Chief Warrant Officer 4 Bryan Andrew Zemek, 36, and Chief Warrant Officer 4 Derek Joshua Abbott, 42.

BY GEORGE BRAINE In 1978, I was commissioned in the Sri Lanka Air Force as a volunteer officer. After a month of rigorous training at the Diyatalawa combat training unit, I was assigned to the Regiment of the Air Force Base at Katunayake. The Regiment is the ground combat unit of the Air Force. The Katunayake base is on a large coconut plantation, and sits next to Sri Lanka’s international airport, which was built long after the base was established. The two runways – of the air force and t...