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Eric A Smith
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Name: Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith
Age: 41
From: Rochester, N.Y.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.
Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith was killed in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in central Iraq.
Died: April 02, 2003
Age: 41
From: Rochester, N.Y.
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.
Incident: Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith was killed in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in central Iraq.
Died: April 02, 2003
Eric A. Smith had wanted to fly since he was a little boy, but by the time he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology he figured his grades would keep him grounded.
In the mid-1980s, some Air Force pilots he met at a bar in San Diego gave him new hope, said his mother, Lillian Lake, 70, of Lake Placid. They invited him to take a flight.
“They told him he would be better off going into the Army and being a helicopter pilot, even though it’s more difficult to fly a helicopter than a plane,” she said.
Smith, 41, a 16-year Army veteran, was killed April 2 when the helicopter he was in went down.
In December, he visited his mother and spoke of the possibility of not coming home.
“He said, ‘Remember it was my choice, I...
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2nd Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Ga.
Incident
Army Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith was killed in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in central Iraq.
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Eric A Smith
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.