Aaron A Weaver
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Age: 32
From: Florida
Assigned to C Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Aaron A. Weaver 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
Rebounding from testicular cancer, Chief Warrant Officer Aaron Weaver could have stayed put at Fort Bragg when his unit shipped out to Iraq last year. But that wasn’t like him. Weaver, 32, of Inverness, Fla., had worked hard to get himself back into shape after cancer surgery in 2002, and got a special medical clearance to fly his OH-58 observer helicopter in Iraq, his father, Mike Weaver said.
“He wanted to go to Iraq,” his father said. “When you’re in a group like that, you don’t want your friends to leave you behind.”
Weaver was on a Black Hawk helicopter en route to Baghdad for a checkup when the craft was shot down south of Fallujah, Iraq. The Jan. 8 crash killed eight other soldiers. As an Army Ranger, Weaver survived the October 1993 battle of...