Washington — President Donald Trump will travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday to conduct a dignified transfer of the two Iowa National Guard members who were killed in… Attack in the Syrian desert This is the test The rapprochement between Washington and Damascus.
The two guards Killed in the attack on Saturday was Sgt. 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 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment. An American civilian serving as an interpreter, identified as Iyad Mansour Sakat of Macomb, Michigan, was also killed on Tuesday.
Held at Dover Air Force Base to honor U.S. service members killed in action, this ritual is one of the most solemn duties of a commander in chief.
During this process, American flag-covered transport boxes holding the remains of dead soldiers are transferred from the military aircraft that transported them to Dover to a waiting vehicle to transport them to the base morgue. There, fallen service members are prepared for their final resting places.
Trump, a Republican, said during his first term that seeing the dignified transfer of the remains of military service members was unusual “The hardest thing I have to do” As president.
The Iowa National Guard remembers both men as heroes. Howard’s stepfather, Jeffrey Boone, said that Howard “loved what he was doing and would be the first in and the last out,” noting that he had wanted to become a soldier since he was a young boy.
In a post on the Miskwaki Police Department’s Facebook page, Boone, who is chief of the Tama, Iowa, department, described Howard as a loving husband and “an amazing man of faith,” and said Howard’s brother, a staff sergeant in the Iowa National Guard, would accompany Nate to Iowa.
Torres Tovar was remembered as a “very positive” person who was family-oriented and someone who always put others first, according to fellow guards who were deployed with Torres Tovar and issued a statement to local television broadcast station WOI.
“They were dedicated professionals and treasured members of our Guard family who represent the best of Iowa,” said Maj. Gen. Stephen Osborne, commanding general of the Iowa National Guard.
Trump told reporters on Saturday that he was mourning the dead and vowed revenge.
Trump said on Monday that he remains confident in the leadership of the United States Interim Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaathe former leader of an Islamist rebel group that led the overthrow of Former President Bashar al-Assadwhose family had an iron grip on Syrian rule for decades.
The US President received Al-Sharaa in Washington last month Historic visit to the White House It officially welcomed Syria as a member of the US-led coalition to fight ISIS. Hundreds of American forces are deployed in eastern Syria as part of the coalition fighting ISIS.
“This has nothing to do with him,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “This had something to do with ISIS.”
Three other members of the Iowa National Guard were injured in the attack. As of Monday, two were in stable condition and the other was in good condition. The Pentagon did not identify them.
Trump traveled to Dover several times during his first term to honor the dead, including… A US Navy SEAL was killed during a raid In Yemen for two army officers A helicopter crashed in Afghanistan And for Two army soldiers were killed in Afghanistan When someone wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire.