Jesse Samek

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A1C Jesse Samek United States Air Force
1983-October 21, 2004
Place of birth	O'Fallon, Missouri
Place of death	Afghanistan
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Air Force
Years of service	2003–2004
Rank	Airman First Class
Unit	66th Rescue Squadron
Battles/wars	Operation Enduring Freedom
Awards	Purple Heart

Airman First Class Jesse Monroe Samek (died October 21, 2004) was a United States Air Force flight engineer deployed to Afghanistan from the 66th Rescue Squadron based out of Nellis Air Force Base, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. He died when the HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter he was riding in crashed northwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He is most notable as having had a U.S. Air Force camp named after him at the Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan.^[1]

1 Education
2 Death
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Education

Samek graduated from Rogers High School, in Rogers, Arkansas in 2001 and attended the University of Arkansas for a year before joining the Air Force in February 2003.

[edit] Death

Jesse Samek died in October 2004 when the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter he was a passenger in crashed due to mechanical failure. The helicopter was performing a medical evacuation of an Afghani election official who was accidentally shot by a guard 105 miles east of Shindand, and northwest of Kandahar.^[2]

He is buried at Bella Vista Memorial Cemetery.