Barbaralien Banks
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Age: 41
From: Harvey, La.
Assigned to Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
Incident: Army Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks was killed April 6 when the CH-47 helicopter in which she was riding crashed in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Fifteen service members were
Died: April 06, 2005
Mother mourns daughter killed in Afghanistan chopper crash
Associated Press
HARVEY, La. — The last time Sylvia Clofer spoke with her oldest daughter, Army Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks, Banks was getting ready to board a transport helicopter for a flight across Afghanistan.
The next morning an Army chaplain and two officers were at Clofer’s home. Clofer braced for bad news. She knew it would be about Banks, 41, or another daughter, Sgt. 1st Class Cassandra Jeanpierre, who was serving with the New Orleans-based 377th Theater Support Command in Kuwait.
“I knew something happened to one of them,” Clofer said.
The CH-47 Chinook transport helicopter Banks boarded had crashed, killing 18 military and civilians in the largest single loss of U.S. life in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
The Defense Department on Monday publicly acknowledged that Banks was on the flight, the day after the agency told...
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