The soldiers, along with over 170 Afghans, were killed in a suicide bombing outside of Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport Thursday.
On Saturday, the Department of Defense rThey included 11 members of the U.S Marine Corps, one member of the Army and one member of the Navy.
The soldiers came from across the country — from California to Wyoming to Tennessee — and had an average age of just over 22 years old, with several as young as 20. They included 31-year-old Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Darin T. Hoover, who was on his third tour in Afghanistan—along with 20-year-old Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, who was transferred to Afghanistan from his first deployment in Jordan.
Twenty-year-old Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum, who was recently married and a soon-to-be father, was in Afghanistan on his very first deployment. And less than a week before the attack, fallen Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole L. Gee"The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American ideals and while saving the lives of others," Biden said in a statement on Saturday.
U.S. President Joe Biden attends the dignified transfer of the remains of a fallen service member at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, August, 29, 2021, one of the 13 members of the US military killed in Afghanistan last week.
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