Pentagon identifies 2 US soldiers killed in weekend attack by Iran
The War Department confirmed the identities early Monday of two soldiers who were killed in an Iranian missile attack on a Jordanian military base last week.
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Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, was killed in Friday’s missile strike on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base east of Amman, while First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, died of his injuries the following day, according to a Pentagon statement.
Officials previously announced that a third service member, who has yet to be publicly identified, was killed in Iraq on Saturday during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone.
Monday’s statement followed a ninth consecutive night of US airstrikes on Iran, which President Trump said were carried out “in honor of the … great patriots.”
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“Well, we feel very badly, but you know those great people, those great patriots, were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews after returning from Sunday’s World Cup final in New Jersey.
“Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They’ve lost everything almost militarily. They’ve got very little left. They’ve got some missiles. They’ve got some drones. They’ve got some manufacturing ability, not much. We control the Strait [of Hormuz]; they don’t control anything. So we’ll see what happens.”
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