Trump to Attend Repatriation Ceremony for U.S. Troops Killed in Iranian Counterattack

[Financial News] President Donald Trump of the United States will attend a dignified transfer ceremony for the remains of six U.S. service members killed in Kuwait in an attack by Iran.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the White House announced on the 6th (local time) that Trump is scheduled to attend the ceremony on the 7th at Dover Air Force Base in the state of Delaware.
On the 1st, the day after the United States and Israel struck Iran, six U.S. troops stationed at the Jahwi Center, a U.S. military facility in the southern Kuwaiti port city of Shuaiba, were killed in an Iranian retaliatory attack.
They had been responsible for supplying equipment, ammunition, and food, and one of the dead was reported to be a woman.
While aboard Air Force One en route to the state of Florida, Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social, "Tomorrow (the 7th), I will go to Dover Air Force Base with the First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) and members of my Cabinet to pay the highest tribute to the great warriors who are returning home for the last time."
Despite having its combat capabilities weakened by large-scale airstrikes from the United States and Israel, Iran continues to launch drone and missile attacks targeting U.S. assets deployed in the Middle East.
U.S. officials expect the fighting to intensify over the coming days.
When he ordered strikes against Iran on the 28th of last month, Trump said, "The lives of brave American heroes may be lost and we may suffer casualties. That often happens in war."
After U.S. troops were in fact killed, he added, "Sadly, there is a strong possibility that there will be more sacrifices before the war is over. That is how it is."
Trump’s remarks have drawn criticism, particularly from the opposition Democratic Party, which argues that he is speaking too lightly about the human cost of war. Critics have also raised concerns that the administration’s war strategy and objectives remain unclear.

gowell@fnnews.com Kim Hyeong-gu Reporter