{"id":199614,"date":"2026-03-20T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:17:07","slug":"gov-ron-desantis-orders-flags-to-be-flown-half-staff-for-florida-soldier-who-was-killed-in-the-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199614\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis orders flags to be flown half-staff for Florida soldier who was killed in the Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> on Friday ordered Florida and U.S. flags at the state Capitol and all local and state buildings to be flown at half-staff on Saturday to honor U.S. Army Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-service-members-killed-iran-war-what-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Capt. Cody Khork,<\/a> a Winter Haven resident, who was killed in Kuwait by Iranian drone strikes on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Capt. Khork served our Nation with honor and dedication in the United States Army since 2009. He served as a Multiple Launch Rocket System\/Fire Directions Specialist and was commissioned as a Military Police Officer in 2014,&#8221; a release from DeSantis&#8217; office states. &#8220;He is remembered not only for his service to our Nation and State but as a true American hero who exemplified the values of patriotism, leadership, and selfless service. Our prayers go out to the family he leaves behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khork, 35, was one of the first U.S. casualties after the U.S. and Israel launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/iran-war-us-israel-gas-and-oil-prices-trump-netanyahu-strait-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">strikes <\/a>at Iranian military and political leadership targets on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>A 2008 graduate of Lake Region High School in Polk County, Khork joined the National Guard in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He served overseas in Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Kuwait and was posthumously awarded the rank of Major.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday ordered Florida and U.S. flags at the state Capitol and all local and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92304,28,30,29,21539,269,412,92305],"class_list":["post-199614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-army-reserve","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-ron-desantis","tag-united-states-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}