
SALT LAKE CITY — Three airmen assigned to Hill Air Force Base, including one from Florida, were killed in Iraq after a car bomb exploded, the U.S. Air Force said Monday.
Tech Sgt. Timothy R. Weiner, 35, of Tamarac, Fla., Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki, 23, of New Castle, Del., and Senior Airman Daniel B. Miller Jr., 24, of Galesburg, Ill., died in the blast Sunday near Baghdad.
All three were members of the 775th Civil Engineer Squadron's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight.
They were trained to safely dispose of bombs and maintain safe passage for convoys on supply routes.
"It was similar to a car bomb in the road and they stopped to do what they normally...