Overview
- Pennington’s remains are scheduled to arrive at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox on Friday, March 20 at 1 p.m. for a dignified transfer, followed by a procession to Trowbridge Funeral Home in Elizabethtown.
- Fort Knox and Hardin County officials invited the public to line the on‑ and off‑post procession route to pay respects during the transfer to Elizabethtown.
- Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 21 at Central Hardin High School in Cecilia, with interment at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery in Radcliff.
- Pennington, 26, was assigned to the 1st Space Brigade under the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command and was posthumously promoted to staff sergeant.
- Gov. Andy Beshear ordered flags at state buildings lowered to half‑staff on the day of interment and noted a separate Kentucky loss, Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, who died March 12 in a KC‑135 crash in western Iraq.