The first stop back on U.S. soil for American service members killed overseas is Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It's where their families wait, where VIPs gather and where the honor guard is called ...

There is a grim kind of math that comes with war. Most of the troops who died during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were flown to Dover Air Force base in Delaware. And for most of the wars, those ...

The family members of fallen soldiers don’t have to mourn alone. Blaze, a therapy dog, has been introduced as Dover Air Force Base’s newest employee within the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations ...

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del.- Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, marked a major milestone for Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware: it celebrated its 75th anniversary. Only 10 days following the attack on ...

The outrage over the gross mismanagement of the remains of U.S. troops at Dover Air Force base is centering on two unfortunate aspects: dishonor for America's war dead and the way the mortuary's ...

DOVER, Del. -- As a color guard stood at attention, flag-draped cases containing the remains of the seven crew members of the space shuttle Columbia arrived Wednesday at Dover Air Force Base. A C-141 ...

DOVER, Del. — The bodies of five American servicemen arrived at the military mortuary at Dover Air Force Base on Tuesday, even as violence claimed the lives of more NATO forces in Afghanistan. An Air ...

The treatment some of this nation's war dead received at the Dover AFB mortuary was despicable. Whistleblowers reported mismanagement at the mortuary, which handles the remains of American military ...

The U.S. Air Force disciplined three officials at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware after whistle blowers reported that they had mishandled the remains of soldiers who had been killed overseas, ...