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chairman donald trump One of the most serious duties will lie before the Commander-in-Chief on Wednesday when he will see the honorable transfer of the two Iowa National Guard Members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert.
The ritual at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware honors U.S. service members killed in action. Trump, who traveled to Dover several times in his first term, once described it as “the hardest thing I’ve had to do” as president.
Both guards killed in Syria on Saturday were sergeants. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, according to the U.S. Army. Both were members of the 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment. These men have been honored as heroes by the Iowa National Guard.
A US citizen working as an interpreter, identified Tuesday as Ayad Mansour Sakat of Macomb, Michigan, was also killed. Three other members of the Iowa National Guard were injured in the attack. pentagon Has not identified them.
They were among hundreds of US troops deployed as part of the coalition fighting in eastern Syria Islamic State Group.
During the process at Dover, American flag-draped transfer cases holding the remains of fallen soldiers are transported from a military aircraft to a waiting vehicle. The vehicle then takes them to the mortuary facility on base, where deceased service members are prepared for their final resting place.
Trump told reporters over the weekend that he was mourning the deaths of the troops and vowed to retaliate.
The attack on Saturday comes after a rapprochement between the US and Syria, which saw the former pariah state join the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State.
Trump has cultivated ties with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a onetime leader of an Islamist rebel group who led the ouster of the former president. bashar asad,
Trump, who met with al-Sharaa at the White House last month, told reporters on Monday that the attack had nothing to do with the Syrian leader, whom Trump described as “devastated by what happened.”
During his first term, Trump visited Dover in 2017 to honor a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during a raid in Yemen, in 2019 to honor two Army officers whose helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, and in 2020 to honor two Army soldiers killed in Afghanistan when a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire.
