The United States military has released photographs of four of the six Army Reserve soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike that targeted a tactical operations center at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on Sunday, putting human faces to a loss that has deepened grief and anger across the country.
The soldiers belonged to the U.S. Army’s 103rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command and were carrying out their duties when the strike hit. They were not combatants pushing into enemy territory. They were support personnel, the backbone of any military operation, doing the unglamorous but essential work that keeps everything else running.
The four soldiers whose photos have been released are Captain Cody Khork, 35, of Lakeland, Florida; Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; Sergeant First Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; and Sergeant Declan Coady, 20, of Des Moines, Iowa.
Twenty years old. Thirty-nine. Forty-two. These were not abstractions. They were parents, children, neighbors, and friends who put on a uniform and never came home.
Two additional soldiers from the same unit were also killed in the attack, bringing the total death toll to six. Their identities have not yet been publicly released, pending notification of next of kin.
The strike represents one of the most deadly single attacks on U.S. forces in the region in recent years and has intensified pressure on Washington to respond decisively to Iran’s escalating aggression across the Middle East.
Here are the photos of the brave soldiers
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