Bodies Of US Army Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan Return Home Via Dover AFB

U.S. Air Force Colonel Robert Edmondson, U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Dailey, Maj. Gen. David Perkins and Lt. Gen. David Huntoon salute as soldiers carry the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sergeant Vernon W. Martin of Savannah, Georgia, out of a C-17 during a dignified transfer on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base October 6, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. A member of the 4th Brigade Combat Team stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, Sergeant Martin is one of eight U.S. soldiers killed on Saturday when about 300 insurgents mounted a bold daylight attack on a pair of remote American military bases in the Kamdesh District of Nuristan Province, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. It was the heaviest U.S. loss of life in a single battle since July 2008.