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Crashed Coast Guard helicopter crewman buried at Fort Rich

July 16, 2010
  • Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Brett Banks, who died in a helicopter crash off La Push, Wash. last week, was buried Thursday at Fort Richardson. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)
Coast Guard Aviation Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Brett Banks, who died in a helicopter crash off La Push, Wash. last week, was buried Thursday at Fort Richardson. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)

by Channel 2 News staff
Thursday, July 15, 2010

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- One of the three Coast Guardsmen killed in a helicopter crash last week was laid to rest in the national cemetery at Fort Richardson Thursday.

Family members and Coast Guardsmen paid their last respects to 33-year-old Aviation Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Brett Banks.

He and two other crewmen were killed when their MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter went down in the waters off La Push, Wash.

Banks leaves behind a wife and two children.

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