US Vice President JD Vance attended the ceremony to welcome the remains of the seventh American soldier killed in the operation in Iran, Sky News reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett was also at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
26-year-old Sergeant Benjamin Pennington died from his injuries after an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia. The other six American soldiers were killed in a direct strike by an Iranian drone at a base in Kuwait last week.
In his speech today in Florida, President Donald Trump also addressed the issue of acceptable casualties in the military conflict, with the words of parents of the fallen soldiers: “Just finish what you started“.