{"id":19850,"date":"2026-03-15T03:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19850\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:09:06","slug":"pentagon-identifies-six-military-members-killed-in-kc-135-crash-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/19850\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon identifies six military members killed in KC-135 crash in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WASHINGTON, D.C. (KWCH) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Defense has identified the six U.S Air Force members who died in a KC-135 crash in western Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials said the service members were supporting Operation Epic Fury when the aircraft went down on March 12. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The airmen were identified as:<\/p>\n<p>Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Alabama.Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington.Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34, of Bardstown, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force base in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Also killed were:<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38, of Mooresville, Indiana.Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30, of Wilmington, Ohio.Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28, of Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Those service members were assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The U.S. Central Command said the crash occurred on a combat mission but was over \u201cfriendly territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. (KWCH) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Defense has identified the six U.S Air Force members who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9889,9017,2648,2613,94,9886,3597,9887,9888,179,9890],"class_list":{"0":"post-19850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-12-news","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-department-of-war","11":"tag-dow","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-kake","14":"tag-kansas","15":"tag-ksn","16":"tag-kwch","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-wichita"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116230996773634428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}