Six military staff were killed last Thursday when their KC-135 aircraft crashed in eastern Iraq, according to the US Department of War, while they were assisting Operation Epic Fury, which Israel and the United States launched against Iran.

Dying military officers

Among the subjects are:

These three were members of the Sixth Air Refueling Wing, which is based at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, which is also Army Central Command's ( Centcom ) corporate headquarters.

The other company individuals who have fallen are:

At Columbus, Ohio's Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, they were assigned to the 121st Air Refueling Wing.

Conflicting accounts about the accident's reason and

According to the Pentagon, the accident took place in allied airspace and wasn't "due to angry or pleasant fire. "

However, according to comments cited by the Fars news agency, an Egyptian representative for the Unified Operations Command, Khatam al-Anbiya, claimed that the plane was struck by a weapon fired by opposition groups in northern Iraq.

The KC-135 It was refueling another "enemy" fighter aircraft, which managed to make an emergency landing with its crew healthy, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

US Casualty Count Since the Start of the Conflict

The total amount of US troops killed since the start of the war against Iran on February 28 has increased to 14. With these six incidents, the entire amount has increased to 14. One of the seven victims was killed in a "medical disaster" in Kuwait, and the other was killed in an accident in Iraq.

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