{"id":20019,"date":"2026-03-15T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-identifies-six-u-s-servicemembers-killed-in-refueling-aircraft-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:22:19","slug":"pentagon-identifies-six-u-s-servicemembers-killed-in-refueling-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pentagon-identifies-six-u-s-servicemembers-killed-in-refueling-aircraft-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon identifies six U.S. servicemembers killed in refueling aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has identified the six U.S. servicemembers who were killed in a KC-135 refueling aircraft crash in western Iraq on Thursday. The airmen were identified as Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Ala.; Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Wash.; Tech. Sgt&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5784705-us-servicemembers-killed-iraq-crash\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Department has identified the six U.S. servicemembers who were killed in a KC-135 refueling aircraft crash in western Iraq on Thursday. The airmen were identified as Maj. John A. Klinner, 33, of Auburn, Ala.; Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Wash.; Tech. Sgt&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}