{"id":69047,"date":"2026-03-16T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/relative-of-us-airman-killed-in-middle-east-crash-calls-war-on-iran-uncalled-for\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:56:25","slug":"relative-of-us-airman-killed-in-middle-east-crash-calls-war-on-iran-uncalled-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/relative-of-us-airman-killed-in-middle-east-crash-calls-war-on-iran-uncalled-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative of US airman killed in Middle East crash calls war on Iran \u2018uncalled for\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cousin of Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons, whose military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, says: \u2018We didn\u2019t need to be in this war\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A relative of an Ohio airman who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/14\/us-service-members-killed-identified\">killed recently in a military airplane crash in Iraq<\/a> amid the US and Israel\u2019s war in nearby Iran has said the conflict is \u201cuncalled for\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could have been prevented,\u201d Stephan Douglas said of the death of his cousin Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons, 28, in an interview with the Ohio news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc4i.com\/news\/local-news\/columbus\/airman-from-columbus-among-those-killed-in-refueling-crash-in-iraq\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThis%20could%20have%20been%20prevented%2C%E2%80%9D%20Douglas%20said.%20%E2%80%9CWe%C2%A0didn%E2%80%99t%C2%A0need%20to%20be%20in%20this%20war.%20This%20is%20uncalled%C2%A0for%2C%20and%20this%20is%20what%20we%20get.%E2%80%9D%C2%A0\">WCMH<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t need to be in this war. This is uncalled for \u2013 and this is what we get.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/16\/airman-killed-iran-war-cousin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cousin of Tech Sgt Tyler Simmons, whose military refueling plane crashed in Iraq, says: \u2018We didn\u2019t need to be in this war\u2019 A relative of an Ohio airman who was killed recently in a military airplane crash in Iraq amid the US and Israel\u2019s war in nearby Iran has said the conflict is \u201cuncalled for\u201d. &#8230; <a title=\"Relative of US airman killed in Middle East crash calls war on Iran \u2018uncalled for\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/relative-of-us-airman-killed-in-middle-east-crash-calls-war-on-iran-uncalled-for\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Relative of US airman killed in Middle East crash calls war on Iran \u2018uncalled for\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}