The first stop back on U.S. soil for American service members killed overseas is Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. It's where their families wait, where VIPs gather and where the honor guard is called ...

The family members of fallen soldiers don’t have to mourn alone. Blaze, a therapy dog, has been introduced as Dover Air Force Base’s newest employee within the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations ...

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del.- Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, marked a major milestone for Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware: it celebrated its 75th anniversary. Only 10 days following the attack on ...

The outrage over the gross mismanagement of the remains of U.S. troops at Dover Air Force base is centering on two unfortunate aspects: dishonor for America's war dead and the way the mortuary's ...

NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Melissa Block read some of this week's listener letters. Topics of interest include a story on the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, 'Taps,' the proposed name change of ...

The treatment some of this nation's war dead received at the Dover AFB mortuary was despicable. Whistleblowers reported mismanagement at the mortuary, which handles the remains of American military ...

WYOMING, Del. (AP) — Three whistleblowers whose complaints about the handling of soldiers' remains led to an investigation of the nation's largest military mortuary in Delaware say they were shocked ...