Pentagon Names US Soldiers Killed in Iranian Attack
The Pentagon, or the United States Department of Defense, has begun to announce the names of American soldiers who died in the war against Iran. The administration of President Donald Trump warned that the escalating conflict would lead to more American fatalities. Iran targeted Gulf states hosting U.S. military assets and troops in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli bombings since Saturday, 28 February, local time. Teheran’s strikes, so far, have killed at least six U.S. service members stationed in Gulf countries.
The Pentagon, as reported by Reuters on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, identified the first four of six U.S. soldiers confirmed to have died as a result of Iran’s retaliatory attack.
The four U.S. soldiers who died were members of the Iowa-based unit of the Army Reserve. According to the U.S. military, they died on Sunday, 1 March, when a drone struck a U.S. military facility at Shuaiba Port, Kuwait.
The Pentagon said the four soldiers who died ranged in age from 20 to 42 and served with the 103rd Sustainment Command from Des Moines, Iowa, which is part of the Army’s global logistics and supply operations.
The U.S. military identified the four Army Reserve soldiers killed as:
Captain Cody A Khork (35) of Winter Haven, Florida
Sergeant 1st Class Noah L Tietjens (42) of Bellevue, Nebraska
Sergeant 1st Class Nicolas M Amor (39) of White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Sergeant Declan J Coady (20) of West Des Moines, Iowa
Major General Todd Erskine, who commands the 79th Theater Sustainment Command, expressed in a statement his “deepest condolences and respect” to the families and members of the fourth soldier’s unit.
Most of the U.S. soldiers killed had overseas assignments. Khork was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 2018, to Guantanamo Bay in 2021, and to Poland in 2024. Amor was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in 2019. Tietjens had two assignments to Kuwait in 2009 and 2019. Coady, who was posthumously promoted from specialist, joined the Army Reserve in 2023.
Trump and other senior U.S. officials have warned that the Iran conflict will lead to more U.S. military deaths as Tehran retaliates against Washington and Tel Aviv. Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East, reported on Tuesday, 3 March, that Iran had fired more than 500 ballistic missiles and deployed more than 2,000 drones in its retaliatory strikes across the region so far.