NameLee Truby KLINE 795
Birth Date13 Aug 1973484 Age: 43
Birth PlaceHuntsville, Madison Co., AL, USA
EducationEmbry-Riddle (Helicopter Avionics/Maintenanmce), 2008279
OccupationHelicopter Pilot; Helicopter Maintenance Chief, U.S. Army279
MotherLinda Sue YARBROUGH (1944-)
Misc. Notes
Warrant Officer, U.S. Army Lee served in Iraq in 2010 and in 2011 is [2010] the Maintenance Division Chief USAREUR Aviation Safety and Standardization Detachment, G3 Aviation Europe.

Resident of Bad Windsheim, Germany in 2008-2010.279
____________

In 2011 Lee had 18 years in the Army.

Lee was a Crew Chief* on the Black Hawk Helicopter. In that capacity he served a tour of duty in Honduras where he flew missions inserting and extracting military teams in Columbia and other nearby countries.

He later attended Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama in training to fly helicopters. He had already advanced as far as an instrument rating when he devolped high blood pressure forcing him out. It was always his plan to become a maintenance officer, and becoming a pilot was the best way to accomplish that.

Lee returned to Hondurus for a second tour where he worked in helicopter maintenance. Later Lee ran the depot that repaired helicopters on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. While there he almost lost his arm when it became infected from a wood splinter he got when he fell while playing football. After his hospitalization in the states he was assigned to a unit in Mosul, Iraq.

Lee knew one of the four Blackwater security men who were ambushed and killed in Fallujah, Iraq and their bodys hung from a bridge on March 31, 2004.


*A crew chief’s duties include manning a machine gun, securing cargo and passengers and it’s their responsibility to see all maintenance is performed on the aircraft.
Spouses
Birth Date6 Aug 1972 Age: 44
Birth PlaceMadison, Dane, WI
Family ID1039
Marr Date3 Jul 1995484
Marr PlaceClarksville, Montgomery Co., TN, USA
ChildrenHannah June (2002-)
 Benjamin Jay (2005-)
Last Modified 24 Jan 2016Created 17 May 2017 Rick Gleason - ricksgenealogy@gmail.com