Next to the UH-1H Huey display.

The monument comprises a small black marble stone mounted with a bronze plaque remembering CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew members killed in a crash during operations in Afghanistan in April 2005. A bell is suspended by an angular steel frame above the monument. 

In April 2005, a CH-47D Chinook helicopter (88-00100, aircrew callsign WINDY-25) from Company F, 159th Aviation Regiment (Big Windy), 12th Aviation Brigade, U.S. Army V Corps, crashed near Khudaidad village in Ghazni Province, southwest of Kabul, in severe weather conditions during a supply and transport mission from Kandahar to Bagram Airfield. The aircrew were supporting operations of Combined/Joint Task Force-76 (CJTF-76) in Afghanistan. The severe dust storm contained winds of more than 45 knots that caused the pilots to lose outside visibility. The pilots were transitioning to instrument flight procedures when they became spatially disoriented and overcontrolled the aircraft. 15 military personnel (including the aircrew) and three U.S. Government support contractors died in the crash, the largest single loss of U.S. life in Afghanistan from the fall of the Taliban in 2001 until that time.

Source of information: www.dvidshub.net, aviation-safety.net, www.stripes.com

Source of photo: www.dvidshub.net/Eugen Warkentin

 IN HONOR OF

CW2 Clint Prather

CW2 David Ayala

SSG Charles R. Sanders

SPC Pendelton L. Sykes

SPC Michael Spivak

CH-47D 88-00100

F CO 159 AVN REGT

Ghazni, Afghanistan