Family members of an 82nd Airborne pilot, badly injured in a drone strike in Iraq, are asking for prayers and help.
Garrett Illerbrunn is stationed out of Fort Liberty. He lives in Pinehurst along with his spouse, Lorna, and son, Tucker.
On Christmas Day, he was serving at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq when the bottom got here underneath assault. A detailed household buddy informed WRAL Information that Illerbrunn has a extreme head harm. He was air-lifted to a hospital in Germany the place he stays unconscious.
“We’re mainly simply going off of prayers and constructive vitality at this level that he can get reunited along with his son, be there to lift him, be there along with his spouse,” mentioned Clio Carroll, a buddy of Illerbrunn’s spouse.
“They’re great individuals, so if all you are able to do is pray, we admire that,” Carroll mentioned. “Something you may give on the GoFundMe would assist them.”