Flags at half-staff in Missouri to honor 20-year-old solider who died in Kuwait

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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Flags across Missouri are at half staff today to honor a fallen soldier from Jefferson County.

Governor Mike Parson ordered the honor for 20-year-old Army Reserve Spc. Jackson Johnson of Hillsboro, who was killed in northern Kuwait. 

Flags are to be lowered at all government buildings. 

.@GovParsonMO has ordered the U.S. & Missouri flags at government buildings statewide be lowered to half-staff on Thursday, March 21, to honor Army Reserve Specialist Jackson D. Johnson, of Hillsboro, Missouri. Specialist Jackson died March 5, while serving our nation in Kuwait. pic.twitter.com/F1FhXh4fhA

— MO Public Safety (@MoPublicSafety) March 20, 2019

Specialist Johnson was a Transportation Management Coordinator in the 657th transportation company, 419th transportation batallion, 649th regional support group, 103rd expeditionary command.

He was killed in a car accident March 5th, the same accident another woman from the St. Louis-area was killed. Sgt. Holli Bolinski also died when their vehicle crashed into a tractor trailer. The 37-year-old Pickneyville, Ill. woman was a mother of five.

Both the soldiers were based at Camp Arifjan and served in the 657th Transportation Detachment, an Army Reserve unit based in Belleville, Illinois.

Johnson will be laid to rest at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Thursday at 11 a.m.

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