US soldiers killed in Afghanistan to be laid to rest this week

FORT CAMPBELL (WTVQ)- Funeral services have been set for three US soldiers from Fort Campbell who were recently killed in Afghanistan.

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam says the first funeral will take place Tuesday at the Fort Campbell Community Chapel.

Another will also happen on the base on Friday.

The third soldier’s funeral will be in north Carolina.

According to the defense department Sergeants Eric Houck and William Bays and Corporel Dillon Baldridge all died of gunshot wounds  in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan on June 10th.

They were part of the 101-st Airborne Division  at Fort Campbell, located on the Kentucky-Tennessee line.