A pilot from Alabama had just been promoted to major in January and had been deployed less than a week when the refueling aircraft he was aboard crashed in Iraq this week, killing him and five

Major Alex Klinner, 33, left behind 7-month-old twins and a 2-year-old son when the KC-135 Stratotanker he and five other crew members were aboard Thursday to support the U.S. war against Iran crashed, his brother-in-law James Harrill told the Associated Press.

The families of the latest group of service members to die in President Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East have begun identifying their loved ones. Major Alex Klinner of Birmingham, Alabama, is one of the six American service members killed on Thursday when an Air Force refueling aircraft crashed while supporting military operations in Iran.

The donation appeared as the top contribution on a fundraiser created by Klinner’s sister-in-law, which has raised hundreds of thousands for his family