The body of Army Spc. Ryan P. Jayne will not be returned home to Steuben County for four to seven days, his father said Tuesday. “We’re hoping it will be on the short end,” Paul Jayne said.
Jayne’s body was flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Tuesday. Once Jayne’s body is returned home, there will be a viewing in Corning, Paul Jayne said. Jayne’s body will then be cremated, his father said.
Jayne, a 2008 Corning East graduate, was one of three upstate soldiers killed Saturday by an improvised explosive device in Paktia province, Afghanistan. Also killed were Staff Sgt. Dain T. Venne, twenty-nine, of Port Henry, and Spc. Brett E. Gornewicz, twenty-seven, of Alden. All three men were assigned to the 178th Engineer Battalion, 412th Theater Engineer Command in Oswego.
“His mother and I should not have to bury our oldest child ... There is no more honorable, dignified way to go than serving your country,” Paul Jayne said Monday.
Jayne served as a combat engineer and a driver. His crew cleared roads and hunted IEDs.
Jayne lived with his brother in Canisteo and was recently home on a ten day leave. He left to return to Afghanistan late last month.
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