Senior 82nd Airborne NCO, Kabul evac vet, found dead at home

Senior 82nd Airborne NCO, Kabul evac vet, found dead at home

A senior field artillery NCO assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division’s headquarters battalion was found dead Monday morning in his Fort Bragg, North Carolina on-post apartment, Army officials announced.

Sgt. 1st Class Michael Hamilton was 35 years old and hailed from Plano, Texas, according to a division press release. He participated in the unit’s snap deployment to secure Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan earlier this year amid a frenzied noncombatant evacuation operation.