{"id":24108,"date":"2026-03-17T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24108\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:52:08","slug":"remains-of-ohio-airmen-killed-in-iraq-refueling-crash-to-be-transferred-at-dover-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/24108\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of Ohio airmen killed in Iraq refueling crash to be transferred at Dover Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio  (WSYX) \u2014 Military and government officials on Wednesday will conduct the dignified transfer of Ohio&#8217;s three airmen who were among six killed in an air <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/nation-world\/pentagon-names-six-airmen-killed-in-crash-during-combat-operations-in-iran\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/nation-world\/pentagon-names-six-airmen-killed-in-crash-during-combat-operations-in-iran\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fueling crash in Iraq last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Mike DeWine said he and his wife, Fran, will travel to Dover Air Force Base along with senior staff from the Ohio National Guard to pay respects to Capt. Seth Koval, of Mooresville, Indiana, Capt. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/newsletter-daily\/wilmington-mourns-honors-captain-curtis-angst-killed-refueling-plane-crash-iraq-ohio-cincinnati-air-force-military-armed-forces-navy-marines-army-middle-east-kc135-stratotanker-jet-plane-tragedy-mourning-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/newsletter-daily\/wilmington-mourns-honors-captain-curtis-angst-killed-refueling-plane-crash-iraq-ohio-cincinnati-air-force-military-armed-forces-navy-marines-army-middle-east-kc135-stratotanker-jet-plane-tragedy-mourning-memorial\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curtis Angst<\/a>, Wilmington, Ohio, and Master Sgt. <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/families-honor-three-ohio-airmen-killed-in-operation-epic-fury-with-balloon-release-kc-135-refueling-crash-seth-koval-curtis-angst-tyler-simmons-rickenbacker-air-national-guard-base\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/families-honor-three-ohio-airmen-killed-in-operation-epic-fury-with-balloon-release-kc-135-refueling-crash-seth-koval-curtis-angst-tyler-simmons-rickenbacker-air-national-guard-base\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Simmons<\/a>, of Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The three were assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing out of Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus. They, along with three members of the 6th Air Refueling Wing from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, were killed when a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/sen-jon-husted-governor-mike-dewine-confirms-3-ohio-air-national-guard-members-killed-in-kc-135-crash#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/sen-jon-husted-governor-mike-dewine-confirms-3-ohio-air-national-guard-members-killed-in-kc-135-crash#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KC-135<\/a> refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq while supporting Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons was posthumously promoted by Ohio&#8217;s Adjutant General from the rank of technical sergeant, DeWine said.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the transfer time weren&#8217;t immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) \u2014 Military and government officials on Wednesday will conduct the dignified transfer of Ohio&#8217;s three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11647,5426,94,8791,11648,9957,212,8908],"class_list":{"0":"post-24108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-air-refueling","9":"tag-dignified-transfer","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-kc-135","12":"tag-military-crash","13":"tag-ohio-national-guard","14":"tag-operation-epic-fury","15":"tag-service-members"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116246737216674607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108","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=24108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}