Jeffrey C. Walker
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Age: 33
From: Havre de Grace, Md.
Assigned to Company C, 782nd Main Support Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Sgt. Jeffrey C. Walker was killed Jan. 8 while on board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter when it crashed during a Medevac mission in Fallujah, Iraq.
Died: January 08, 2004
Maryland man among those killed in Iraq helicopter crash
Associated Press
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Sgt. Jeffery C. Walker, a fitness and car buff who traveled the world during his 14-year military career, was the fifth Maryland resident to die in the war in Iraq.
Walker, 33, of Havre de Grace, was one of nine soldiers killed when a Black Hawk helicopter on a routine medical flight to Baghdad crashed near Fallujah, the Department of Defense said. The UH-60 helicopter was likely shot down, military officials and witnesses said.
“It’s tough, so tough,” Walker’s brother, Johnny Walker, 36, told The (Baltimore) Sun. “We actually got closer as we got older. We communicated a lot more. We were looking forward to growing old together.”
The brothers were born in Seoul, South Korea, to a Korean mother and an American father. During their father’s military career, they traveled the world, living in California, Texas and Panama....