For the first time in 18 years, U.S. media was allowed to cover the arrival of an serviceman killed overseas, the first such opportunity since the Obama administration overturned a ban on news coverage of returning war dead.
Air Force officials received permission from family members to observe the return of the body of 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, who was killed April 4 by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
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