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A seventh U.S. service member has died in the Iran war, the U.S. military announced Sunday. President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer of six slain service members Saturday (AP)<\/p>\n
The soldiers killed in action were Maj. Jeffrey O\u2019Brien, 45, of Indianola, Iowa; Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, 54, of Sacramento, California; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; and Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, lowa, who was posthumously promoted from specialist.<\/p>\n
The six Army Reserve members were killed by a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait. The group was from the 103rd Sustainment Command, based in Des Moines, Iowa, which provides food, fuel, water and ammunition, transport equipment and supplies. They died a day after the U.S. and Israel launched joint military campaign against Iran on February 28. <\/p>\n
Trump said Saturday there will likely be more U.S. casualties in the conflict with Iran. When asked if he thought he would attend more dignified transfers, Trump said: \u201cI\u2019m sure. I hate to… but it\u2019s part of war.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Major Jeffrey O\u2019Brien (left) and Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan were killed in action March 1 (US Army)![\"From](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/US-servicemen-split.jpeg\")
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From left: Capt. Cody Khork, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens and Sgt. Declan Coady were killed in action March 1 (U.S. Army Reserve)<\/p>\n
Top administration officials attended the dignified transfer, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The defense chief who wrote on social media Friday of “an unbreakable spirit to honor their memory and the resolve they embodied.” <\/p>\n
Attorney General Pam Bondi, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence were also in attendance. <\/p>\n
Trump, wearing a blue suit, red tie and white USA baseball cap, saluted each coffin as it was carried by service members from the military aircraft to awaiting transfer vehicles. The families of the slain soldiers were also in attendance. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese soldiers engaged in the most noble mission: protecting their fellow Americans and keeping our homeland secure,\u201d Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a combat veteran, said earlier this week. \u201cOur nation owes them an incredible debt of gratitude that can never be repaid.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Smoke rises from an area surrounding the U.S. Embassy, in Bayan, Kuwait. Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait on March 1 (via REUTERS)<\/p>\n
At least 1,230 people have been killed in Iran, more than 300 in Lebanon and about a dozen people in Israel since the conflict began over a week ago, according to the Associated Press. <\/p>\n
The U.S. and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran on February 28, killing dozens of Iranian officials, including the country\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian officials said Sunday his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, would be his successor. <\/p>\n
Iran has retaliated against Israel and U.S. bases and allies in the region. On Sunday, Israel struck Beirut, Lebanon, and an oil storage facility in Tehran, continuing to escalate the conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-464960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}