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Patrick D Leach
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Name: Army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach
Age: 39
From: Rock Hill, S.C.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, South Carolina Army National Guard, Columbia, S.C.
Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach was killed Dec. 9 in an Apache helicopter accident in Mosul, Iraq. Also
Died: December 09, 2004
Federal Way native killed in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 39
From: Rock Hill, S.C.
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, South Carolina Army National Guard, Columbia, S.C.
Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach was killed Dec. 9 in an Apache helicopter accident in Mosul, Iraq. Also
Died: December 09, 2004
Federal Way native killed in Iraq
Associated Press
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — One of two soldiers killed when a pair of U.S. helicopters collided in Iraq was a commercial airline pilot who had served in Operation Desert Storm.
Warrant Officer Patrick Leach, 39, was one of the victims, said his parents, Bruce and Grace Leach of Tacoma.
“My son was doing what he had to do,” said Bruce Leach Sr. “He hated to leave his family. But he went because he was told to go. He did his duty.”
The Federal Way native, a member of the South Carolina National Guard, died Thursday when an AH-64 Apache struck an UH-60 Black Hawk on the ground in the city of Mosul.
Leach’s parents learned of his death Thursday night when they returned...
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the 1st Battalion, 151st Aviation Regiment, South Carolina Army National Guard, Columbia, S.C.
Incident
Army Chief Warrant Officer Patrick D. Leach was killed Dec. 9 in an Apache helicopter accident in Mosul, Iraq. Also
Prayers & Messages
Patrick D Leach
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.