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Rex C. Kenyon, 34
Army, Chief Warrant Officer 3
Based:
Ft. Hood, Texas
Supporting:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Died:
January 16, 2006
Mishahda (north of Baghdad),
Iraq
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Every time we would see him, we would ask him when he was going to get out of the Army. He would tell us that this wasn't a job to him. He told us he would never get a place to work where they would give him a $30-million helicopter to fly and all the gas he needed. He would tell us he was doing the right thing for him and for our country.
— Rex Kenyon, father
For his 17th birthday, Kenyon asked for a helicopter lesson. At 18, he was lured from his engineering studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo by Army recruiters who offered him a chance to fly helicopters as a full-time soldier.
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