SPOKANE, Wash. — A retired Air Force colonel is calling on the Spokane community to rally around military families following Thursday’s deadly KC-135 crash over western Iraq.
US Central Command confirmed all six American crew members on board were killed.
Colonel (Ret) Brian Newberry is the former commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base. He said Thursday’s news was familiar after three of his own airmen died in a similar crash near Kyrgyzstan — the last time a U.S. KC-135 went down overseas…