GREENSBORO (AP) — The body of a North Carolina National Guard soldier killed in Afghanistan has been returned to Greensboro.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported that the body of Sgt. Jeremy F. Hardison arrived from Dover Air Force Base on Monday Morning.
Hardison and two other soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber last week.
Members of the National Guard carried the casket to a hearse that took Hardison’s body to a funeral home. The hearse was escorted by the North Carolina Highway Patrol and the Patriot Guard Riders, a motorcycle group that attends military funerals.
Capt. Rick Scoggins says Hardison will probably be buried Thursday at Salisbury National Cemetery.
Hardison joined the National Guard in 2006. He had deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009.