The Department of War on Tuesday released the names of four United States Army personnel killed during the weekend’s Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
United States Central Command (CENTCOM) reported the first casualties on Sunday, then reported on Monday that a fourth soldier had succumbed to wounds. Two other fatalities from an Iranian drone attack on an operations center in Kuwait were accounted for later. (RELATED: Reporter Presses Pete Hegseth To Define Objectives For Iran War)
The fallen soldiers were identified in an Army Reserve Command press release as Capt. Cody Khork, 35, from Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, all assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command at Des Moines, Iowa.
Sgt. 1st. Class Nicole Amor (Photo by the Department of War)
Khork, a resident of Lakeland, Fla., initially enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 before he commissioned as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve in 2014. Amor, a resident of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, enlisted in the National Guard in 2005 before transferring to the Army Reserve in 2006 and deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in 2019.
Capt. Cody Khork (Photo by the Department of War)
Tietjens, a resident of Bellevue, Nebraska, enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2006 and had two deployments to Kuwait in 2009 and 2019. Coady, who was posthumously promoted from specialist, was a resident of Des Moines, Iowa, who enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2023.
Sgt. 1st Class Noah Teitjens (Photo by the Department of War)
President Donald Trump announced that the United States military and Israeli Defense Forces began Operation Epic Fury in a video he posted to Truth Social early Saturday morning. Trump confirmed Khamenei’s death in a later post on Truth Social Saturday.
Sgt. Declan Coady (Photo by the Department of War)
Iran responded to Operation Epic Fury by firing hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones indiscriminately at targets in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
A Pentagon spokesperson referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to a post in which Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell denied a report from CBS News that the operations center the soldiers from the 103rd Sustainment Command were in was a “makeshift” installation when reached for comment.
“A Tactical Operations Center is not a ‘makeshift office space,’” Parnell wrote. “The secure facility was fortified with 6-foot walls.”
“Every possible measure has been taken to safeguard our troops — at every level. The Department is prepared for this engagement and has hardened our defenses,” Parnell added. “We’ve moved a significant number of our troops off the X and will always protect our bases and people from a significantly weakened Iran.”
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