Reply #21: They arrive at Dover that way [View All]

From there, the fallen have to go their separate ways to where their families will lay them to rest.

A military plane full of fallen comrades? What are they gonna do, drop them off locally like school kids at bus stops? To do that, the military would have to hold bodies until they got a full load. Is that kinder than getting some fallen hero home to loved ones ASAP?

To get the fallen home as soon as possible usually means via regularly scheduled flights and THAT means commercial airlines. As they cannot transport the dead in the passenger compartment, how else but in the cargo hold?

Practical matters loom large in the matter of transporting the deceased.