CW4 Ricky Rowzee B co instructor pilot sits and carefully goes through all of the flight prechecks before lifting off for a mission.
On October 11, 2008 B Company, 1st Battalion 244th Assault Helicopter Battalion (AHB) was tasked with a mission that was not the normal VIP or dignitary ring route around Iraq to which they had become accustomed. Their passengers that day would be considered typical, ordinary people by American standards but in Iraq, Christians are a very small minority group. The crew, that day, helped escorted these people to safety. To read more about the “Helping Hands” of B Company, 1-244th AHB visit: www.TaskForce34.org
CW4 Rick Rowzee, CW2 Cody Davis, CW2 Christina Maple, CPT James Wells, SFC Jason Debusk, SGT Corey Hoyt, SGT Rick Halbert and SPC Jerry Lint were a part of the B. Co., 1-244th Assault Helicopter Battalion crew on Oct 11. They were tasked with a mission that was not the normal VIP or dignitary ring route around Iraq to which they had become accustomed. Their passengers that day would be considered typical, ordinary people by American standards but in Iraq, Christians are a very small minority group. In fact over the last few months Christians have been receiving death threats and 13 Christian Iraqis have been killed in the northern city of Mosul. To read more about the “Helping Hands” of B Company, 1-244th AHB visit: www.TaskForce34.org
