OAN’s Brooke Mallory
11:00 a.m. – Friday, February 2, 2024
President Joe Biden on Friday attended the honorable transfer of three American soldiers killed in Jordan this week in a drone strike that the United States has linked to an Iranian-backed extremist group.
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Relatives of three fallen service members met for the first time with the president and first lady Jill Biden at the Veterans Family Center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The pastor stood and prayed at the base of the plane where the Bidens will return the remains of service members to the United States.
They then returned to formation on the tarmac, and an evacuation team from the fallen service member’s branch removed the soldiers’ flag-draped transport cases from the aircraft.
The soldier’s body was then transferred to a waiting van so that it could be prepared for its final resting place at the morgue.
After the event, Biden returned to Air Force One. He made no public speeches.
Every American service member who falls in combat overseas is given a dignified send-off. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Sgt. Special Waycross resident Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, was promoted to sergeant following his death. and Spc. Breonna Alexandria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, who was promoted to sergeant after her death, was among the three reservists transferred Friday.
All three soldiers were from Georgia.
“They risked everything, and we will never forget the sacrifice and service to our country of the dozens of service members who were wounded and recovering,” Biden said.
This week, White House representatives said the United States would choose the “timing and location” of retaliation against Iranian-backed forces it claims were behind Sunday’s attack, which could take “several weeks.” It was announced that there is.
Two U.S. insiders said an explosive-laden drone struck a base near a bunker where some soldiers were resting, killing three soldiers and killing more than 30 more. I was injured.
In a statement announcing their deaths, Biden called the soldiers “patriots in the highest sense of the word.” “Their ultimate sacrifice will never be forgotten by our country,” he continued.
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