[ST. PAUL, MN] – In honor and remembrance of Warrant Officer Candidate Kort Miller Plantenberg, Governor Tim Walz has ordered all United States flags and Minnesota flags to be flown at half-staff at all state and federal buildings from sunrise until sunset on Thursday, December 12, 2019.

Warrant Officer Candidate Kort M. Plantenberg died tragically in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash on December 5, 2019. He will be remembered in a funeral mass at Saint John's Abbey Church in Collegeville, Minnesota, on December 12, 2019.

A copy of Governor Walz’s proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff can be found here . Chief Warrant Officer Two Charles Nord and Chief Warrant Officer Two James Rogers will also be honored on the day of their interment.