Rex C. Kenyon, 34

Army, Chief Warrant Officer 3

Based: Ft. Hood, Texas

1st Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, 4th Infantry Division

Supporting: Operation Iraqi Freedom

Died: January 16, 2006

Mishahda (north of Baghdad), Iraq

Engaged, 1 child

Gender: Male

Hometown: El Segundo

High School: El Segundo High (El Segundo)

Burial: Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, Killeen, Texas

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.

Brandon Christopher Dewey, 01/20/2006

Douglas A. La Bouff, 01/07/2006

Seven memories of Rex C. Kenyon

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To the Kenyon family: May God's grace provide comfort to ease the loss you have suffered.

To the Times: Thank you for publishing this detailed database.

To Jennifer Delson, Times obituary writer: You may feel that Mr. Kenyon was "lured" by an Army recruiter in 1990 to fly helicopters, but you obviously don't understand the passion this young man had for flying. He spent 16 years after being "lured" doing what he loved to do. He gave his life while involved in his passion. As a former military pilot, I say how dare you belittle the choice he made to pursue flying.

If being "lured" was an opinion of someone else you had interviewed for the obituary, then that should have been specified. Then all would know just who held such a contemptuous attitude towards Mr. Kenyon's life.

” — David Jacobson, September 4, 2010 at 8:35 a.m.

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