CW3 Niall D. Lyons

26 October 2009, Afghanistan

160th SOAR

A native of Spokane, Washington, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Niall D. Lyons was killed on 26 October 2009 in Darreh-Ye Bum, Afghanistan, when his MH-47 Chinook crashed during a combat operation.

Lyons enlisted in the Army in October 1994. He graduated from flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, in 1999 and was assigned as a Tactical Operations Officer in the 17th Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After an assignment to Fort Rucker as an instructor, he served with the 3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Drum, New York. He completed Green Platoon in 2009, and was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia.

CW3 Lyons was supporting Operation ENDURING FREEDOM at the time of his death.