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Pentagon Allows Media to Cover Returning War Dead for First Time in 18 Years

Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress at 9:55 AM on April 6, 2009.


Following the new policy, the media were allowed to cover the return after the military received consent from family members of the soldier.

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At Dover Air Force Base in Delaware last night, the Pentagon granted the news media access to the arrival of a fallen soldier from overseas for the first time in 18 years. In February, the Obama administration lifted the ban on news coverage of returning war dead, which had been in place since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Following the new policy, the media were allowed to cover the return after the military received consent from family members of the soldier. Below is the return of 30-year old Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on April 4:

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Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.


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