Courtesy Photo | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 11.04.2007
As green signal smoke drifts on the Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base drop zone Nov. 4, 10-year-old Dennis Channel of Millersport tries to spot Soldiers from B Company, 2nd Battalion 19th Special Forces Group as they conduct an airborne training jump from a CH-47 Chinook Helicopter. B Company troops invited Dennis, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2001, and his family to......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Kim Snow | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 10.23.2007
Dennis Channel Jr., right, dons an aircrew's "quick don" oxygen mask during an Oct. 23 visit to the Columbus-based 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. Channel, along with several family members including his sister, Tasha, and brother, Kile, pictured, met with Air and Army National Guard aviation units during a "pilot for a day" visit arranged by Ohio National......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Kim Snow | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 10.23.2007
Dennis Channel Jr. prepares to take off in a Columbus Police Department helicopter piloted by CPD officer Adam Worthington, also a Black Hawk pilot in the Ohio Army National Guard, during an Oct. 23 visit to Rickenbacker Air National Guard base in Columbus....
Photo by Staff Sgt. Kim Snow | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 10.23.2007
Dennis Channel Jr. talks with Chief Warrant Officer Harold R. Burke, a pilot with A Company, !st Battalion, 137th Aviation Regiment, during an Oct. 23 tour of the Army Aviation Support Facility at Rickenbacker Army Enclave in Columbus....