Alabama Flags to Be Flown at Half-Staff in Memory of Airmen Killed in Iraq

Alabama gov orders flags lowered for Maj Alex Klinner after fatal Iraq plane crash; fundraiser garners $1.4M

Alabama flags were ordered to half-staff by Gov. Kay Ivey to honor three fallen service members from Birmingham's Joint Air National Guard Base who died in Iraq.

Alabama flags to be flown at half-staff in memory of airmen killed in Iraq

Flags are to be lowered on the day of Major Alex Klinner's interment.

Ivey issues order honoring Alabama airmen killed in crash on day of funeral

Gov. Kay Ivey will direct that flags be lowered in recognition of the airmen who lost their lives in the crash of a KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft in western Iraq on March 12. Three of the six fallen airmen served…

'This loss is personal': Alabama Guard grieves deaths of airmen killed in Iraq

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WDHN) — Three U.S. Air Force airmen, who lived and worked in Alabama, were killed in a military aircraft accident in western Iraq. The crash occurred during Operation Epic Fury, on Thursday, March 12. The next day, the search and recovery mission for the servicemembers ended, and on Saturday, the Department of War [...]

3 Alabama airmen killed in Iraq plane crash: Unit ‘deeply heartbroken’ by deaths of ‘Vulcan refuelers’

Gov. Ivey orders flags lowered for Trussville airman killed in Iraq

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Gov. Kay Ivey ordered flags lowered on Tuesday, March 17, in honor of Major John A. “Alex” Klinner, a Trussville resident and member of the 99th Air Refueling Squadron, 117th Air Refueling Wing, who was killed on March 12 alongside five other U.S. military service members in an aircraft accident over western Iraq. In a memorandum issued to all state agencies, Ivey noted that among the six service members who died in an acciden…