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U.S. Air Force airmen transfer the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers on Dover Air Force Base, Del., April 5, 2009. This was the first time the Defense Department has allowed families to permit media coverage of dignified transfer operations under a new policy. Myers, of Hopewell, Va., died April 4, 2009, from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device near Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, Unite

DOVER ARRIVAL

U.S. Air Force airmen transfer the remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Myers on Dover Air Force Base, Del., April 5, 2009. This was the first time the Defense Department has allowed families to permit media coverage of dignified transfer operations under a new policy. Myers, of Hopewell, Va., died April 4, 2009, from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device near Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to the 48th Civil Engineer Squadron, Royal Air Force Lakenheath, Unite

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