Arkansas families have paid a high price in Iraq.

Three members of Arkansas National Guard’s 77 th Aviation Brigade died Saturday in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Iraq that killed 12 U. S. soldiers.

The three Arkansans were members of the helicopter crew, according to a Defense Department official.

The Associated Press on Monday reported the identities of two of the soldiers as crew chief Gary Brown of Little Rock and Capt. Michael Taylor of North Little Rock, commander of Company C, 131 st Aviation Regiment. The third soldier’s name is still unknown. As of late Monday, the Pentagon had not released the names of the soldiers who died in the crash northeast of Baghdad.