The Pentagon confirmed today that an improvised explosive device killed MSgt. Brad A. Clemmons, 37, of Chillicothe, Ohio, on Aug. 21 when the vehicle in which Clemmons was riding struck the IED. Clemmons, who was an explosive ordnance disposal craftsman with the 354th Civil Engineering Squadron at Eielson AFB, Alaska, was traveling in a convoy to Taji, Iraq.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…