Trump Attends Ceremony Honoring Fallen U.S. Service Members
President Donald Trump attended a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on July 22, 2026, as the remains of four U.S. Army soldiers killed in the Middle East were returned to the United States. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also attended the solemn event, which came amid the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict and underscored the human cost of military operations in the region. Trump Joins Families and Military Leaders at Dover The four transfer cases belonged to 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad and Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton. Feehan, Gonzales and Rampersad were killed in connection with an Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, while Swinton died on July 19 at Erbil Air Base in Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed one-way unmanned aerial system. Trump saluted as the flag-draped transfer cases were carried from the aircraft at Dover. He had also met ...