The Blackhawk crew, from the Army's 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division out of Savannah, Ga., died when their helicopter crashed April 2nd 2003 while moving equipment needed to take out pockets of the Medina Division of the Iraqi Republican Guard. The crash took the lives of Capt. James Adamouski, 29, of Springfield, Va., CW4 (Chief Warrant Officer) Erik Halvorsen, 40 of Bennington, Vt., CW3 Eric Smith, 41, CW2 Scott Jamar, 32 of Granbury, Texas, Sgt. Mike Pedersen, 26 of Flint, Mich. and SPC Mathew Boule, 22 of Dracut, Mass.
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