{"id":380417,"date":"2026-07-21T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:25:26","slug":"us-soldiers-killed-by-iran-were-from-dallas-area-hawaii-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380417\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldiers killed by Iran were from Dallas area, Hawaii, military says"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 Two U.S. Army soldiers killed in Jordan while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks<\/a> were identified on Monday \u2014 the first U.S. troop deaths from direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Defense Department said in a statement that Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, were killed in Jordan<\/a> in Friday\u2019s attacks. <\/p>\n

Feehan, a first lieutenant, will be posthumously promoted to the rank of captain and awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Combat Action Badge. The Army did not provide details about his commendations. He was assigned out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command. <\/p>\n

Feehan was just weeks away from getting a Master of Business Administration from Southern Utah University, according to the school. The university will award his degree posthumously.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hearts are with his family, fellow service members, classmates, and all who knew and loved Tyler as we mourn this profound loss together,\u201d Mindy Benson, the university’s president, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Gonzales was a private with the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany. She graduated last year from Hebron High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, school officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe gave her life in that service, and our district is heartbroken by her loss,\u201d the Lewisville Independent School District said in a statement. \u201cHer decision to serve after graduation speaks volumes of her character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The military said Gonzales died on Friday and Feehan died the following day. It did not provide details.<\/p>\n

A third service member was reported missing in the attacks that killed Feehan and Gonzales. U.S. Central Command said Sunday that \u201cunidentified remains\u201d have been found and were being examined.<\/p>\n

The US military says 17 service members have been killed in the war with Iran<\/p>\n

The deaths reflect the complicated reality that American soldiers don\u2019t need to be on the ground in Iran for there to be lethal risks in a conflict that involves drones, missiles and airplanes. American forces are arrayed across the Middle East, making other nations targets of Iran and its allies as the fighting has escalated<\/a> after a breakdown in peace talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has said the war is necessary to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Trump, a Republican, now faces political pressure to bring the war to a close and avoid the kind of prolonged Middle East conflict he had campaigned against.<\/p>\n

Drones and missiles are claiming lives on both sides<\/p>\n

An American service member was also killed in northern Iraq on Saturday during a \u201ccontrolled detonation\u201d of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, U.S. Central Command said Sunday. A second service member was wounded and was receiving medical treatment for a minor injury.<\/p>\n

The military said it was withholding additional information until 24 hours after families had been notified.<\/p>\n

Iranian authorities said U.S. strikes in just the past three weeks have killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 500 others, including eight killed in a strike on a bridge Friday.<\/p>\n

Both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure relied on by millions of people. Workers on ships, as well as foreign workers and others in Gulf nations, Israel and Lebanon have also died in the conflict. <\/p>\n

The first US military fatalities came soon after the war started<\/p>\n

Shortly after the U.S. and Israel began the war on Feb. 28, an Iranian drone strike at a civilian port in Kuwait killed six American soldiers. The soldiers were part of a supply and logistics unit based in Iowa<\/a> who were working at a shipping container-style building that had no defenses.<\/p>\n

A seventh soldier died<\/a> more than a week after being wounded during a March 1 attack by Iran on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Later in March, six service members were killed when a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting U.S. military operations against Iran crashed in Iraq<\/a>. The aircraft was in \u201cfriendly\u201d airspace when an unspecified incident involving another aircraft took place, according to U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n

Last week, the U.S. military said a Navy pilot died<\/a> in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea. The Navy initially described the July 1 crash as an emergency landing and said there was \u201cno indication the emergency was caused by hostile action.\u201d The remaining three sailors aboard the helicopter were rescued.<\/p>\n

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