On Tuesday, the Defense Department confirmed the identities of four of the six known U.S. fallen servicemembers of the Iran War, revealing they were Army Reserve soldiers assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command based out of Des Moines, Iowa. Here’s what’s known about them thus far:
Capt. Cody A. Khork: Khork was a 35-year-old from Winter Haven, Florida. Per military officials, Khork enlisted in the National Guard in 2009 and was later commissioned as a military police officer with the Army Reserve in 2014. TIME reports Khork was deployed three times: Saudi Arabia in 2018, Guantanamo Bay in 2021, and Poland in 2024, and he received several commendations including the Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal.
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens: Tietjens was a 42-year-old from Bellevue, Nebraska. According to military officials, he first enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2006 as a wheeled vehicle mechanic. The Wall Street Journal reports that Tietjens was deployed to Kuwait twice before, in 2009 and 2019, and received numerous awards for his service. According to the Associated Press, Tietjens was married with a son.
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor: Amor was a 39 year-old from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She joined the National Guard in 2005, transferred to the Army Reserve in 2006 and later deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in 2019, per military officials. Amor was a married mother of two. Her husband Joey Amor told the Wall Street Journal that she had deployed in August and was close to returning home at the time of her death. “She was in her 90-day window,” he said.
Sgt. Declan J. Coady: Coady was a 20 year-old from West Des Moines, Iowa. Drake University, where he was a student, mourned his loss in an official statement, saying that Coady “had an incredibly bright future ahead of him.” Per the institution, Coady studied information systems, cybersecurity, and computer science and had served in the Army Reserves since 2023 where he worked as an information specialist. The Associated Press reports that he was posthumously promoted to sergeant.
The Pentagon has yet to identify the remaining two U.S. servicemembers who were killed in action.
