Topeka ? Posthumous promotions have been bestowed upon the first Kansas Army National Guard soldiers to die in combat since the Vietnam War.

The Kansas Adjutant General’s Department announced Friday that Staff Sgt. Clinton Lee Wisdom, 39, of Atchison, was promoted to sergeant first class, and Spc. Don Clary, 21, of Troy, was promoted to sergeant.

The soldiers, who were members of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery, died Monday in Baghdad after they put their vehicle between a convoy they were assigned to protect and a vehicle driven by insurgents that exploded.

They were on the promotion list when they died but had not yet received their new rank.

Clary’s funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Troy High School. He will be buried at Courter Cemetery in Troy.

Wisdom’s funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at First Christian Church in Atchison. Burial will be at the Walnut Grove Cemetery south of St. Joseph, Mo.