Six honor guard members Friday carried the remains of Air Force Staff Sergeant Jacob “Jake” Galliher in a casket draped with the American flag off a C-17 cargo plane at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee where members of his family and public officials, including Governor Maura Healey and US Representative Richard Neal, waited.
US Air Force Staff Sergeant Jacob M. Galliher was among eight airmen killed in an Osprey crash in Japan in November. The military has since grounded its fleet of the aircraft.