CHAD L MICHAEL
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Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 11-W: 27
Department: Drug Enforcement Administration
End of Watch: October 26, 2009
Cause: HELI
Age: 30
Years of Service: 5
Description: Special Agent Michael was one of three DEA special agents and seven U.S. military service members killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. During the early morning hours, Special Agents Micael, Forrest Leamon and Michael Weston were acting in support of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan's Badghis Province. Upon their return from a joint counter-narcotics operation, the agents, along with approximately 100 soldiers, were being extracted by military helicopter. One of the helicopters crashed, claiming the lives of the DEA agents and seven U.S. military personnel. Supervisor Patrick McDarby received non-life threatening injuries.
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