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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) body bearer team fall into formation as an Air Mobility Command C-17 Globemaster III arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md. with the remains of World War II Army veteran and former Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) Feb. 12, 2019.Rep. Dingell Arrival Ceremony
                        
                        
                        The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment body bearer team fall into formation as an Air Mobility Command C-17 Globemaster III arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md. with the remains of World War II Army veteran and former Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) Feb. 12, 2019. The longest-serving Congressional member in American history from 1955 to 2015, Dingell passed away Feb.7, 2019, in Dearborn, Mich. The U.S. Armed Forces will provide military ceremonial support throughout the funeral and interment of Dingell in Michigan and Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kenny Holston)
                
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        The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) body bearer team carries the casket of former World War II Army veteran and Congressman John D. Dingell at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 12, 2019.Rep. Dingell Arrival Ceremony
                        
                        
                        The U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Regiment body bearer team carries the casket of former World War II Army veteran and Congressman John D. Dingell at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 12, 2019. The longest-serving Congressional member in American history from 1955 to 2015, Dingell passed away Feb. 7, 2019, in Dearborn, Mich. The U.S. Armed Forces will provide military ceremonial support throughout the Congressional funeral of Dingell in Michigan and Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Michael S. Murphy)
                
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        A C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 315th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, carrying the casket of former World War II veteran and Congressman John D. Dingell lands on Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 12, 2019.Rep. Dingell Arrival Ceremony
                        
                        
                        A C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C., carrying the casket of former World War II veteran and Congressman John D. Dingell lands on Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 12, 2019. The longest-serving Congressional member in American history from 1955 to 2015, Dingell passed away Feb. 7, 2019, in Dearborn, Mich. The U.S. Armed Forces will provide military ceremonial support throughout the Congressional funeral of Dingell in Michigan and Washington, D.C. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Michael S. Murphy)
                
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AFDW provides ceremonial honors to longest-serving Congressional memberPublished Feb. 14, 2019
                    
                    By Master Sgt. Amaani Lyle
                    
                    
                    Air Force District of Washington Public Affairs
            **JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland (AFNS) --**Air Force District of Washington conducted an arrival ceremony in honor of World War II Army veteran and former Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.) Feb. 12, 2019.
Dingell, 92, passed away in Dearborn, Michigan, Feb. 7.
Dingell’s family and his remains arrived at JBA on board a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, Joint Base Charleston, S.C.
AFDW is responsible for the Air Force operational and ceremonial support to Dingell’s funerals and all other joint military service ceremonies in the national capital region and elsewhere, as directed by U.S. Army Military District of Washington.
Military support for Dingell's funeral is provided by the Defense Department as an exception to policy at the request of the speaker of the House of Representatives and includes an Army body bearer team, a firing party and a bugler at the funeral and interment ceremonies. Military funeral honors at the interment ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, are provided according to Dingell's military service.
Dingell, who served in the U.S. House from 1955 to 2015, was not only the longest-serving representative in American history, but one of the final two World War II veterans to have served in Congress.
He was the last member of Congress who had served in the 1950s and during the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
The day he died, Dingell dictated reflections to his wife at their home. The following is an excerpt of those words, which were published as an op-ed piece Feb. 8 in the Washington Post.
“I never forgot the people who gave me the privilege of representing them. It was a lesson learned at home from my father and mother, and one I have tried to impart to the people I’ve served with and employed over the years.”
“As I prepare to leave this all behind, I now leave you in control of the greatest nation of mankind and pray God gives you the wisdom to understand the responsibility you hold in your hands.”
The Congressional funeral in honor of Dingell will conclude with a public funeral mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the District of Columbia Thursday at 10:30 a.m. He will later be interred at Arlington National Cemetery in a private ceremony.ceremonial guardsmen 



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