
HELENA, Mont. — Pvt. 1st Class Kyle Bohrnsen of Philipsburg loved hunting and the outdoors and was a hard worker and great role model, friends and family said April 12.
Bohrnsen, 22, died April 10 from injuries caused by an improvised explosive device that detonated while his battalion was on patrol in Baghdad. Four others were injured.
“From what we know, it seems that he was driving when the IED exploded under his Hummer,” Geoff Bohrnsen, Kyle’s father, said April 12 from the family home in the Rock Creek Valley, west of Philipsburg.
“If you are a religious person, it makes you hope that someone somewhere else needed him,” he said....