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A U.S. Army team transfers the remains of Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Oct. 5. Wright was one of four U.S. troops killed in an ambush in Niger.
President Donald Trump's boast that he surpasses his predecessors in consoling families of the fallen proved empty this past week as many stepped forward to say they'd never heard from him after losing their loved ones in military service. The suddenly fraught and politically charged subject overshadowed other misfires from the president, on taxes, hurricane relief and more.
President Donald Trump's boast that he surpasses his predecessors in consoling families of the fallen proved empty this past week as many stepped forward to say they'd never heard from him after losing their loved ones in military service. The suddenly fraught and politically charged subject overshadowed other misfires from the president, on taxes, hurricane relief and more.
Natasha De Alencar was sitting at home after a trip to Walmart in April when a phone rang. It was President Donald Trump, and he wanted to talk about her husband.
WILSON - In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger, upon his body's arrival in Miami.... .
On October 4, the day that four US Special Forces soldiers were gunned down at the border of Niger and Mali in the deadliest combat incident since President Donald Trump took office, the commander in chief was lighting up Twitter with attacks on the "fake news" media. The next day, when the remains of the first soldiers reached Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Trump was assailing the "fake news" and warning the country of "the calm before the storm."
The 20-year-old corporal from Colts Neck, who was among 16 service members killed when a military plane crashed earlier this month in rural Mississippi, had dreamed of serving his country since at least middle school, family and friends said Tuesday morning. As hundreds of people gathered for a memorial service at the Colts Neck High School football field, where Baldassare competed for four years, mourners remembered him as an adventurous and loving young man, who his commanding officer described as the "epitome of what a Marine is."
Brake failure caused a C-5M Super Galaxy cargo plane to be evacuated just before takeoff Thursday at Yokota in western Tokyo, an Air Force spokesman said. The plane's crew, assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., noticed the failure while taxiing to the runway, the spokesman said.
Air Mobility Command has grounded the C-5 Galaxy cargo planes operating at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after the second malfunction of a nose landing-gear unit in the past 60 days. The stand-down order, issued on July 17, affects all 18 C-5s stationed at Dover - 12 of them are primary and six are backup aircraft, according to a release.
The father of a Navy SEAL killed during a mission that Donald Trump approved just a week into his administration blames the president for his son's death. William Owens told The Miami Herald that he refused to meet with Trump when the remains of son, William "Ryan" Owens, were returned to Dover Air Force Base.
Moments of order and calm came to Week Two at the Trump White House. You just had to look fast to catch them amid the name-calling, indelicate tweets and hectoring of world leaders.
Moments of order and calm came to Week Two at the Trump White House. You just had to look fast to catch them amid the name-calling, indelicate tweets and hectoring of world leaders.
President Trump opened his first appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington with a prayer for the television ratings of the man who succeeded him as host of "The Apprentice." "They hired a big, big movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to take my place.