TULSA (AP) – A new United Service Organizations center in Afghanistan will bear the name of an Oklahoma National Guard member who died there last year.
The center opened at Bagram Air Base over the weekend is being named after Spc. Sarina Butcher, the first female Oklahoma National Guard member to be killed in combat.
The 8,500-square-foot USO facility will provide a theater, telephones, Internet access, a library and other amenities to soldiers who are stationed there or are passing through.
The 19-year-old Butcher died Nov. 1 when the vehicle in which she was riding was hit by a roadside bomb. Butcher, a single mother, served with Oklahoma’s 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
Butcher was born in Crosset, Ark., but lived in Checotah.
She is buried near Hope, Ark.
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