HAMMAR, Carl Eric

Published by Las Vegas Review Journal - By Keith Rogers LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL July 17, 2012 - 4:58 pm Soldier from Lake Havasu City killed in Afghanistan A 24-year-old soldier from Lake Havasu City, Ariz., was killed Saturday in Afghanistan after enemy forces attacked his foot patrol with small-arms fire and a rocket-propelled grenade, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. Army Staff Sgt. Carl Eric Hammar died at Forward Operating Base Sharana, where he had been flown by helicopter for treatment after the attack in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, according to a news release from Alaska's Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. He was assigned to an airborne unit at the joint base, the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division. Hammar had served two previous combat tours in Iraq, from January 2007 to March 2008 and from August 2009 to July 2010 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His 3,500-soldier brigade combat team deployed to Afghanistan in December. Hammar, who was born in New York, joined the Army in December 2005 in Phoenix, Joint Base spokesman Chuck Canterbury said. He said Hammar's next of kin have been notified and a memorial service will be held at the base at a time and date to be announced. ********************************************************************************************************** Published by Today's News-Herald on May 25, 2026 - Lake Havasu City, Arizona - (Front page article - "Remembering Lake Havasu City's Servicemen Killed in Action" Carl Eric Hammar Afghanistan July 14, 2012 Hammar......lived in Lake Havasu City shortly before his deployment overseas. Born in Sweden, he moved to the United States and Lake Havasu City during his senior year of high school, where SSG. Hammar married fellow student Abby Mahan in 2005. Together they had one child, and Hammar enlisted in the Army after spending a year at Mohave Community College.