The Pentagon has identified two U.S. Army soldiers killed in an Iranian strike on a military base in Jordan. Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, was killed Friday during an attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was killed the following day.
A third service member was listed as missing in action. The military said Sunday that unidentified remains had been found in the area. Four other service members were medically evacuated to a hospital in Jordan and later discharged. Others were treated for minor injuries.
According to CBS News, Gonzales was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command, based in Ansbach, Germany. Feehan was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Both were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S. mission against the Islamic State group.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to the deaths on social media. "Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve," he said on X.
Following the attack, U.S. forces launched a new round of airstrikes against Iran at the direction of President Trump, U.S. Central Command said Saturday evening. It was the eighth straight night of strikes on Iran since ceasefire talks broke down. Strikes continued the following day, marking nine consecutive nights.
CENTCOM said the strikes were designed to "further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who launched attacks against American service members in Jordan last night."
The two deaths are the 15th and 16th among U.S. service members killed in the conflict with Iran. Six were killed in an Iranian attack on a base in Kuwait in March. Also in March, six died when a refueling plane crashed in Iraq, and one was killed in an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.
Iran, meanwhile, vowed that not a single drop of oil or gas would pass through the Strait of Hormuz, according to reporting by The Guardian. The threat came as ASEAN foreign ministers gathered in Manila, where the Iran conflict was among the major topics on the agenda alongside the Myanmar crisis and tensions in the South China Sea.
