WHITFIELD: The dignified transfer of one of the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria this week wrapped up about an hour ago at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Trump paid his last respects to the families of all four Americans who had gathered there. He called it a very sad occasion and the toughest thing he has had to do in office. He said that before he left the White House this morning. Officials say the four Americans had special skills to gather highly sensitive intelligence in Syria. And their identities have been released. Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was a 35-year-old Navy chief, cryptologic technician from Upstate New York. She was a cancer survivor, a wife, mother of two young boys, according to "Stars and Stripes." A rock star with infectious determination and tenacity, according to her commanding officers. Army Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Farmer was a 37-year-old married father of four who did six overseas combat tours since he joined the Army in 2005. He was from Boynton Beach, Florida. And 42-year-old Scott Wirtz was a Navy SEAL before joining a defense intelligence agency as an operations support specialist. The St. Louis native was a patriot, according to his supervisors. And the fourth person killed was an interpreter from East Point, Georgia, Ghadir Taher. Taher's brother said she worked through a company called Valiant, and was a naturalized U.S. citizen and immigrated from Syria in 2001. The U.S. military has not said why the Americans traveled to the busy commercial city of Manbij. This is the largest loss of American life in Syria since the counter-ISIS campaign started --
4 Americans Killed in Syria Identified.