The Air Force will extend military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran shot and killed by a security officer as she climbed through a broken window during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Babbitt served 5 years on active duty in the Air Force and several years in the Air National Guard, a service record that entitled her to a basic level of funeral military honors under federal law, including a folded flag presented to next of kin and a bugler to play Taps. But a request from her family for those honors at her 2021 funeral was denied by then-Lt. Gen. Brian Kelly, the deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services.

But Undersecretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier overturned that decision this week. In a letter to Babbitt’s f

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