(photo: Aaron Kubasch)
A dedication ceremony was held on Wednesday in Winsted to designate that community’s post office as the “James A. Rogers Jr. Post Office.”
Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Rogers was a resident of Winsted when he was one of three soldiers killed in the crash of a helicopter in early December 2019 near the community of Kimball.
Rogers was born in Madeliea and graduated from St. James High School in 2010. He had enlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard in 2009 as a field artillery specialist, and in 2013 he had become a Warrant Officer as a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot.
He had been deployed to Kuait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from May of 2011 through May of 2012, and again from June of 2018 through June of 2019.
Representative Michelle Fischbach and U-S Senator Amy Klobuchar were among the dignitaries on hand during the dedication ceremony on Wednesday.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rogers, and fellow Guardsmen Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles P. Nord and Warrant Officer Candidate Kort Plantenberg were members of Company C2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion based in St. Cloud. The post office in Perham, Minnesota is being re-named for CWO2 Nord, and the Avon Post Office is being dedicated to WOC Plantenberg.
