A seventh member of the US military has lost their life amidst the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran.
The service member, whose identity remains undisclosed, succumbed to injuries sustained during an Iranian assault on US forces in Saudi Arabia on March 1, according to an announcement from the US Central Command on Sunday afternoon.
The agency has indicated that the identity of the deceased will be kept confidential for 24 hours to allow time for notifying their family.
This somber event follows closely after President Donald Trump participated in the first dignified transfer ceremony on Saturday for those who have fallen in the conflict with Iran.
The President made his way to Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of six US service members who died in Kuwait were solemnly returned to their loved ones.
The six fallen soldiers, who perished on Sunday, were Army reservists from the 103rd Sustainment Command, which is stationed in Des Moines, Iowa.
Nicole Amor, 39, Cody Khork, 35, Declan Coady, 20, Robert Marzan, 54, Jeffrey O’Brien, 45 and Noah Tietjens, 42, died in the conflict.
The President told the Daily Mail during a phone interview last week that he was open to going, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt making the plan official during her briefing on Wednesday.
A seventh US service member has been killed as the war between Iran and America rages on. They have not yet been identified
Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance are seen at the dignified transfer ceremony on Saturday, along with other Trump cabinet members
It marked the President’s second trip to Dover for this type of military ceremony during his second term.
Trump also attended one in December to pay tribute to two US Army soldiers and their US civilian interpreter who were killed by an ISIS-affiliated gunman in Syria.
The President attended just four dignified transfer ceremonies during his first term, which sometimes put him in political hot water.
Just weeks into his first term, Trump went to his first dignified transfer ceremony on February 1, 2017, where Bill Owens, the father of the slain William ‘Ryan’ Owens, refused to shake the President’s hand.
The elder Owens was enraged that Trump had approved a raid in Yemen just six days into his term.
‘For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen – everything was missiles and drones – because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden, we had to make this grand display?’ Bill Owens told the Miami Herald.
Bill Owens and his wife sat in a room away from Trump when the President was conducting greetings.
Trump did not return to Dover for another dignified transfer ceremony until nearly two years later – on January 19, 2019.
Army Reserve Major Jeffrey O’Brien (left), 45 and Chief Warrant Officer Robert M Marzan (right), 54
Captain Cody A Khork (left), 35, and Sergeant 1st Class Nicole M Amor, 39
Sergeant 1st Class Noah L Tietjens (left), 42, and Specialist Declan J Coady, 20
Once Biden was in office, his own conduct at a dignified transfer ceremony also became a political problem.
Amid the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, 13 US service members were killed in a terror attack outside the Kabul International Airport.
During the August 2021 dignified transfer ceremony for the 13 Americans killed, the Democrat was seen looking at his watch on several occasions, sparking fury online among veterans and GOP commentators.
The violent US-Israeli war with Iran continued on Sunday, with Iran launching a series of ballistic missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates and Israel in retaliation for the overnight bombardment in Tehran.
At least six people are injured in Israel, including one seriously, as a result of the barrage.
Trump has gone on to promise that the US will dial up the attacks.
On Sunday, it was also revealed that the head of Iran’s Military Office Abu al-Qassem Baba’iyan has been killed in the latest wave of attacks, the IDF claimed on X.
The military official was also the Chief of Staff of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
He is the latest major figure in the regime to be killed in Israeli strikes.
Trump announced when the war first broke out that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike.
