{"id":879,"date":"2019-01-02T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deamaltzchallenge.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2019-01-18T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:33:16","slug":"army-capt-james-francis-adamouski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maltzchallenge.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/02\/army-capt-james-francis-adamouski\/","title":{"rendered":"Army CPT James Francis Adamouski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
James Francis Adamouski\n
Captain, United States Army<\/td>		<\/td><\/tr>
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Courtesy of the United States\nMilitary Academy<\/strong>\n
 \n24 April 2003:<\/strong>\n\n
Meighan\nAdamouski, wife of Army Captain James Adamouski, is escorted behind <\/strong>\n
the\ncoffin at the funeral service for Adamouski at Arlington National Cemetery, <\/strong>\n
April\n24, 2003. Adamouski, 29, from Springfield, Virginia, was killed when his <\/strong>\n
Black\nHawk helicopter crashed in central Iraq<\/strong>\n\n
The\ncoffin containing Army Captain James Adamouski is carried to its burial\nsite<\/strong>\n
at\nArlington National Cemetery April 24, 2003.<\/strong>\n\n
Soldiers\nlift the U.S. flag from the coffin of Army Captain James Adamouski <\/strong>\n
during\nhis funeral, at Arlington National Cemetery, April 24, 2003.<\/strong>\n\n
Meigan\nAdamouski, wife of Army Capt. James Adamouski, during a<\/strong>\n
graveside\ninterment ceremony for her husband at Arlington National <\/strong>\n
Cemetery\nThursday, April 24, 2003<\/strong>\n\n
Meighan\nAdamouski, wife of Army Captain James Adamouski, receives a folded <\/strong>\n
flag\nfrom Lieutenant General Richard Cody, during a funeral service for Adamouski\nat <\/strong>\n
Arlington\nNational Cemetery, April 24, 2003.<\/strong>\n\n
Meighan\nAdamouski, wife of Army Captain James Adamouski, receives a<\/strong>\n
folded\nflag from Lieutenant General Richard Cody, during a funeral service <\/strong>\n
for\nAdamouski at Arlington National Cemetery, April 24, 2003.<\/strong>\n
\n27 April 2003:<\/strong>\nAnother member of the crew, Chief Warrant Officer\nEric\nA. Smith, <\/a>is to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on 12\nMay 2003.\n<\/strong>22 April 2003:<\/strong>\nJames Francis Adamouski died on Wednesday,\nApril 2, 2003 in Iraq. He was the loving husband of Meighan Adamouski;\nbeloved son of Frank and Judy Adamouski; beloved brother of Laura Griffith,\nKaren Marion, and Jaclyn Adamouski.<\/strong>\nThe family will receive friends on Wednesday,\nApril 23, 2003, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Church of the Nativity, 6400 Nativity\nLane, Burke, VA 22015, with a Knights of Columbus overnight vigil and where\na Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, April 24 at 12:30\np.m.<\/strong>\nA Service of Remembrance will be held at the\nFort Myer Memorial Chapel at 3:30 p.m. with interment to follow with Full\nHonors at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/strong>\nIn lieu of flowers, the family requests that\nmemorial contributions be made in the name of Capt. James Adamouski to\nthe National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2104 Laburnum Ave., Richmond,\nVirginia 23227.\n<\/strong>Thursday, April 10, 2003<\/strong>\n
Harvard-Bound Soldier in Iraq Dies in Helicopter\nCrash<\/strong>\n Army Captain James F. \u201cJimmy\u201d Adamouski,\nwho planned to enter Harvard Business School (HBS) this fall, was killed\nin a helicopter crash in Iraq last Wednesday, 2 April 2003. He was 29.<\/strong>\nAdamouski, who was the first West Point graduate\nto die in Iraq, was killed along with five other soldiers when the Black\nHawk helicopter he was piloting crashed in central Iraq, according to the\nRichmond Times-Dispatch.<\/strong>\nBecause of his HBS acceptance, Adamouski\u2014an\nofficer of the Third Aviation Regiment of the Third Infantry Division\u2014had\nnot been required to fly his final mission, his family said.<\/strong>\n\u201cIn his 29 years, he probably did more than\nmost people do in a lifetime,\u201d James Adamouski\u2019s father, retired Army Lieutenant\nColonel Frank Adamouski, said. \u201cJimmy made such a difference in his life\nand his future was looking so great with the opportunity to attend Harvard.\nThere is no limit to the contributions he could have made to the future\nof this country.\u201d<\/strong>\nHe said his son\u2014who planned to teach at West\nPoint after receiving his MBA\u2014set high standards that were the cornerstone\nupon which he lived his life.<\/strong>\n\u201cAs he touched people, people sensed that he\nhimself had a high standard,\u201d Frank Adamouski said. \u201cI was asked how the\narmy has changed my son. Well, my son was changing the army. He did this\nby setting standards so high that everyone he touched raised their standards\na little bit as a result of knowing him.\u201d<\/strong>\nFrank Adamouski also said that his son\u2019s standards\nguided his life from a very early age.<\/strong>\nOn one occasion during his seventh grade year,\nAdamouski missed his school bus. Rather than compromise his perfect attendance\nrecord, he ran home and phoned a cab to drive him to school, according\nto his father. Before the cab arrived, he scoured his home for spare change.<\/strong>\nAs the cab drove him to school, James watched\nthe meter climb until it reached the maximum that he could afford to pay,\nat which point he told the driver that he would walk to school. The driver,\nsympathetic, turned off the meter and drove him the rest of the way.<\/strong>\nAccording to his father, Adamouski \u201cmade a\ndifference in every class, with every teacher.\u201d<\/strong>\nAt Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield,\nVirginia, Adamouski was a star on the soccer team, and he also played football\nand ran cross country and indoor track. He attended American Legion Boys\nState between his junior and senior year and was eventually elected president\nof his senior class.<\/strong>\n\u201cOne of his teachers went on TV and said that,\ntwelve years after his graduation, the difference he made still remains,\u201d\nFrank Adamouski said.<\/strong>\nAt West Point, Adamouski continued to play\nsoccer, making the all-Patriot League, and went semi-professional in Germany\nfor a brief stint.<\/strong>\nHowever, according to Matt T. Wiger\u2014an HBS\nstudent who attended West Point with Adamouski\u2014a knee injury Adamouski\nsustained during his senior year of high school threatened his athletic\nprospects during his first year at the Academy.<\/strong>\n\u201cHe was actually cut from the soccer team his\nplebe year at West Point because of [the injury],\u201d Wiger said. \u201cHe came\nup and played JV next year and subsequently passed up seven or eight guys\non a very deep varsity to earn a starting position for his junior year.\u201d<\/strong>\nWiger recalled him as an individual who was\nable to inspire good graces in everyone he met.<\/strong>\n\u201cJimmy was one of those guys. In the army it\u2019s\nvery hard to be liked by both your commanders and your subordinates. Jimmy\nwas able to balance both. He was loved up and down the chain of command,\u201d\nWiger said.<\/strong>\nOn one occasion, according to his father, Barbara\nWalters and General Norman Schwarzkopf were on the West Point campus, waiting\nfor cameras to set up. Adamouski walked up and struck a conversation with\nthe two luminaries.<\/strong>\n\u201cTwenty minutes later, [Walters and Schwarzkopf]\nhad to be pried away,\u201d Frank Adamouski said.<\/strong>\nAfter graduating from West Point, Adamouski\nwas accepted to flight school in Ft. Rutger, Alabama, where he learned\nto fly Black Hawk helicopters.<\/strong>\nAfter his first assignment to Geibelstadt,\nGermany, Adamouski went on two deployments to Bosnia and one to Albania\nduring the Kosovo conflict, after which he returned to Fort Rutger for\nadvanced training.<\/strong>\nLast August, Adamouski married his wife, Meighan,\nbefore he was deployed to Iraq. At the time of his death, they had lived\ntogether for four and a half of the seven months they had been married.<\/strong>\nMeighan Adamouski could not be reached yesterday.<\/strong>\nAccording to his father, Adamouski was also\na committed Christian and a lay Eucharistic minister in the Catholic Church.<\/strong>\nFrank Adamouski said that the family received\na letter from their son after his death detailing how he conducted prayer\nservices, scripture readings and served communion for his fellow soldiers\nin Iraq.<\/strong>\n\u201cSince his mother had always wanted him to\nbe a priest, his company started calling him \u2018Father Jimmy,\u2019\u201d Frank Adamouski\nsaid.<\/strong>\nHis father said he received a stream of phone\ncalls and e-mails from people whose lives his son had impacted.<\/strong>\nAccording to Frank Adamouski, one message reads,\n\u201cI served with Jimmy in Germany. He encouraged me to go back to school\nand now I\u2019m getting my Bachelor\u2019s in the spring. I owe it all to Jimmy.\u201d<\/strong>\nFull military burial services for Adamouski\nat Arlington National Cemetery are tentatively slated for the week following\nEaster.<\/strong>\n
\nWar in Iraq Claims Life of Lee\nHigh Grad<\/strong>\n
Army Capt. James Adamouski is first war fatality\nfrom Fairfax County<\/strong>\n
April 9, 2003<\/strong>\n\n\n
A\nphoto of James Adamouski with wife Meighan<\/strong>\n
taken\nbefore he departed for Kuwait.<\/strong>\nJimmy Adamouski’s leadership qualities are\nwhat Laura Griffith felt would lift her brother to the Oval Office one\nday. That opportunity will never happen as U.S. Army Captain James Adamouski\nbecame the victim of a helicopter crash in Iraq on Wednesday, April 2.\nThe loss left the Springfield family in mourning. “He had this quality,\nthis aura, Griffith said. “He would have been the first Polish-Catholic\npresident.”<\/strong>\nAdamouski’s determination to graduate from\nWest Point was an early sign of those leadership qualities. A 1991 graduate\nof Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, he was president of the senior\nclass, according to his father Francis J. Adamouski Jr.<\/strong>\n
An only son, James Adamouski had three sisters.\nIn addition to Laura, there was Karen Marion, 33, and Jaclyn, 24.<\/strong>\n“They all went to him with their problems.\nJimmy was always the leader,” Francis Adamouski said.<\/strong>\nAccording to information released by the Department\nof Defense, Adamouski was one of six U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion,\n3rd Aviation Regiment, who were on the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter which\ncrashed in central Iraq.<\/strong>\nThe Adamouski family got word of the accident\non Thursday, April 3, 2003, and immediately drove to Georgia, where the\n3rd Aviation Regiment is based.<\/strong>\nFrancis Adamouski looked at his son’s determination\nand attitude as potential lessons for the younger generation. “I think\nthe story of his life would be a great help to the younger generation,”\nhe said.<\/strong>\nThis wasn’t the first time that James Adamouski\nwas in harm’s way. He went to Bosnia three times and Albania once. But\nhis mother Judith Adamouski felt uneasy about the deployment to Iraq. “This\ndeployment bothered me a lot, I didn’t have good vibes,” she said.<\/strong>\nWhen she expressed concern to her son, he said,\n“I’ll fly low and I’ll fly fast.”<\/strong>\nAdamouski, 29, had been married seven months\nto the former Meighan Lacey, a fellow graduate of Lee High School. Although\nthe two did not know each other well at Lee, Griffith felt the circumstances\nbehind their relationship were unique. Griffith met Meighan while working\nat Outback Steakhouse in Springfield and introduced the two.<\/strong>\n
“They didn’t know each other,” Griffith said.\n“I was the one who introduced them. We all went out. Afterward she said\n‘I’m going to be Mrs. James Adamouski.'”<\/strong>\nAt Lee, Adamouski loved soccer but played football\none year for the Lancers as the kicker. Mary Schaefer, a teacher at Lee\nfor the past 22 years, remembers Adamouski. She taught earth science at\nthe time and when the class broke into lab groups, he was a natural leader.<\/strong>\n“He would take charge of them, he always did\nit in a very pleasant way,” she said.<\/strong>\n
As far as a future president of the United\nStates, Schaefer thought that was possible as well.<\/strong>\n“That’s not far-fetched at all,” she said.\n“He did have the potential of being president. It was a tragic loss. We\nhave truly lost someone that might have done wonderful things for our country.”<\/strong>\nAll of his school years, James Adamouski was\nobsessed with perfect attendance, Griffith remembered. Once, while a seventh\ngrader at Key Middle School, he missed the bus and called a cab. When they\narrived at school, James Adamouski realized he did not have enough money,\nbut the cab driver understood.<\/strong>\n“Typical Jimmy,” said Griffith, of her brother’s\npersistence.<\/strong>\nJames Adamouski planned on completing his master’s\nin business administration and had been selected to teach economics at\nWest Point.<\/strong>\nWhen the Army is through investigating the\ncrash, the family will have a service at The Church of Nativity in Burke\nthe evening prior to a burial at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/strong>\nGriffith suffers from multiple sclerosis and\nMeighan Adamouski requested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made\nin her husband’s name to the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.<\/strong>\n
\nCaptain James Adamouski, 29,\nof Springfield, Virginia, had flown more than a thousand hours in Black\nHawks. When his mother would fret about the danger Adamouski would promise\nto fly low and fast. He was not piloting the day he died.<\/strong>\nA star soccer player at West Point, Adamouski\nplayed semipro soccer when stationed in Germany. He had big plans: He had\njust been accepted at the Harvard Business School and he hoped to teach\neconomics at West Point. He married just seven months ago.<\/strong>\nIn his last message home — to his wife, Meighan,\non March 30 — Adamouski wrote of his eagerness to be home, fears about\nthe war and his confidence in his men.<\/strong>\n”The conventional Iraqi Army forces are no\nmatch,” he wrote. ”However, the crazy Iraqi with a bomb strapped to his\nchest or a shoulder-fired missile is what scares me the most.”<\/strong>\n
\nArmy Captain James Adamouski,\n29, Savannah, Georgia<\/strong>\nCaptain James Adamouski knew that his mother\nworried about him flying so he frequently reassured her: “I’ll be safe,\nand I’ll fly low, and I’ll fly fast.”<\/strong>\nAdamouski and five other members of the 2nd\nBattalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, based at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah,\ndied April 2, 2003, when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in central\nIraq. Adamouski had more than 1,000 hours logged flying the Black Hawk\nbut wasn’t the pilot when the accident occurred.<\/strong>\n“I wanted him in tanks,” Judy Adamouski said.\n“But he’d always tell me, ‘Mom, the Black Hawk is the safest helicopter\nthe Army has.'”<\/strong>\nAdamouski was a graduate of the U.S. Military\nAcademy at West Point, N.Y., where he played soccer. He was so good that\nhe played for a semi-professional team when he was stationed in Germany.<\/strong>\n“Anything with a ball he loved,” said Meighan\nAdamouski, his wife of seven months. “He drove me nuts watching sports,\nbut he let me watch the Home and Garden Network. He was great that way.\nI used to ask God why I was so lucky to have been given such a great husband.”<\/strong>\nAdamouski had just been accepted to Harvard\nBusiness School and planned to teach economics at West Point after earning\na master’s degree in business administration.<\/strong>\n“What his West Point buddies told us is that\nJimmy died the way they wanted to die,” his father said. “He died in a\nblaze of glory, and he’s an American hero.”\n<\/strong>ADAMOUSKI, JAMES FRANCIS<\/strong>\n
CPT   US ARMY <\/strong>\n
VETERAN SERVICE DATES: 06\/02\/1995 – 04\/02\/2003<\/strong>\n
DATE OF BIRTH: 06\/22\/1973<\/strong>\n
DATE OF DEATH: 04\/02\/2003<\/strong>\n
DATE OF INTERMENT: 04\/24\/2003<\/strong>\n
BURIED AT: SECTION 60  SITE 7874<\/strong>\n
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY<\/strong>\n\n
 Courtesy of Barbara McGlynn,\nValentines’s Day February 2006<\/a>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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