Iran War: Trump pays his final respects to fallen US troopers | EUROtoday

US President Donald Trump took half within the repatriation of the six US troopers killed within the Iran battle together with his spouse Melania and representatives of his authorities. To do that, he traveled to Dover Air Force Base within the US state of Delaware, the place he additionally met the households of the fallen. “It’s a very sad day,” he mentioned afterwards on the best way again to Florida.

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In addition to Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chief of Staff Dan Caine had been additionally on website. The President mentioned he was glad that that they had paid their final respects to the fallen troopers. Amid friends principally wearing black, Trump additionally stood out as a result of he was carrying a white baseball cap with the inscription “USA”.

Ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Hours earlier, he had described the fallen troopers as “great heroes” at an occasion within the US state of Florida. He promised that the United States would restrict the variety of its personal deaths within the battle to a “minimum.”

The six troopers had been all killed in a drone strike in Kuwait within the first days of the battle, in line with the US army.