Funeral Plans for Capt. McClimans Pending

Funeral arrangements are still being made for Capt. Joshua McClimans, the Army nurse who was killed in an attack at his hospital base in Afghanistan last week. 

The Defense Department said arrangements for the Bath resident were not yet complete. Randall Funeral Home in Jamestown, PA, said funeral plans would not be final until sometime next week.

His girlfriend, Melissa Bulebush of Akron, said McClimans, 30, would have full military honors in Jamestown, his hometown.

"He was an amazing guy and my soulmate," Bulebush said in an email. "He will be dearly missed but never forgotten."

A nurse in the intensive care unit at Summa Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, he had been stationed at  at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost province, Afghanistan, for about six weeks when the attack occurred.

The Erie, PA, Times-News reported that McClimans was a member of the Twinsburg-based 848th Forward Surgical Team and was dually assigned to the 352nd Combat Support Hospital at Camp Parks, CA.

Bulebush created a Facebook page to memorialize McClimans, "Loving Memory Joshua McClimans." 

Shortly before deploying in Afghanistan, McClimans visited his son Max's first-grade class at Fort Island Primary School. 

Principal Robert Whitaker said he didn't know what plans the class had to memorialize McClimans, and if there is a memorial it would be very low-key. Getting such bad news was "pretty raw" for the kids, he said.