{"id":70767,"date":"2026-04-03T04:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/watch-president-trump-reveals-families-of-slain-us-service-members-urged-him-finish-the-job\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:58:17","slug":"watch-president-trump-reveals-families-of-slain-us-service-members-urged-him-finish-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/watch-president-trump-reveals-families-of-slain-us-service-members-urged-him-finish-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: President Trump reveals families of slain US service members urged him \u2018finish the job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While delivering an update to the nation on &#8220;Operation Epic Fury&#8221; on Wednesday night, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> said the families of the 13 slain U.S. service members have urged him to &#8220;please finish the job&#8221; to defeat Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump emphasized that &#8220;every single one of the people, their loved ones, said, \u2018Please, sir, please finish the job.\u2019 Every one of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He commended the fallen service members who served in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Army and Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We salute them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6392457091112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP TOUTS MILITARY MIGHT AGAINST IRAN AS ALLIES PUSH FOR DIPLOMACY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirteen U.S. service members, ages 20 to 54, have been killed in the Middle East since the Trump administration launched its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/defense\/wars\/war-with-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran operation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Six U.S. Army soldiers were killed in a March 1 Iranian drone strike at a command center in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait. Six others, U.S. Air Force airmen, died in a refueling plane crash on March 12 in Iraq. Another, Army Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, died in an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>During his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/what-you-need-know-5-key-takeaways-from-trumps-iran-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wednesday night address<\/a>, Trump announced that the &#8220;core strategic objectives&#8221; of the operation &#8220;are nearing completion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we celebrate this progress,&#8221; Trump said, &#8220;we think especially of the 13 American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6392449657112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP DECLARES IRAN CONFLICT &#8216;NEARING COMPLETION&#8217; AS POLL INDICATES AMERICANS&#8217; DISAPPROVAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has traveled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/trump-first-lady-attend-dignified-transfer-6-us-troops-killed-kuwait\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dover Air Force Base<\/a> in Delaware twice since the start of the conflict to honor the fallen service members as their remains were returned to the U.S. in a dignified transfer for burial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to be with those heroes as they returned to American soil,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And\u00a0I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, their husbands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump touted America\u2019s military might. He said the U.S. is &#8220;on track&#8221; to complete all of its objectives &#8220;very shortly.&#8221; However, he announced, &#8220;We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-calls-world-build-delayed-courage-seize-key-oil-route-from-iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TRUMP CALLS ON WORLD TO BUILD \u2018DELAYED COURAGE,\u2019 SEIZE KEY OIL ROUTE FROM IRAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite their losses, Trump emphasized that &#8220;every one&#8221; of the fallen service members\u2019 families asked him to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every one of them,&#8221; he repeated. &#8220;And we are going to finish the job, and we&#8217;re going to finish it very fast. We&#8217;re getting very close.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While delivering an update to the nation on &#8220;Operation Epic Fury&#8221; on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump said the families of the 13 slain U.S. service members have urged him to &#8220;please finish the job&#8221; to defeat Iran. 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