US soldiers killed by Iran were from Texas and Hawaii, military says ⁠17%

By Associated Press⁠60%

7/20/2026, 11:13:07 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Recency Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 12.9% saturation with 84 hits. Analysis detected 479 faulty-reasoning hits from 649 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠17% (17,172 of 20,514 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.70% of the article peer group.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. 
Army soldiers killed in Jordan while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks were identified on Monday — the first U.S. troop deaths from direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war. 
The Defense Department said in a statement that James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas, were killed in Jordan in Friday’s attacks. 
Feehan, a first lieutenant, will be posthumously promoted to the rank of captain and awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Action Badge medals. 
The Army did not provide details about his commendations. 
He was assigned out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the 32nd Army Air Missile Defense Command. 
Gonzales was a private with the 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany. 
She graduated last year from Hebron High School in Carrollton, near Dallas, school officials said. 
“She gave her life in that service, and our district is heartbroken by her loss,” the Lewisville Independent School District said in a statement. 
“Her decision to serve after graduation speaks volumes of her character.” 
The military said Gonzales died on Friday and Feehan died the following day. 
It did not provide details. 
A third service member was reported missing in the attacks that killed Feehan and Gonzales. 
U.S. 
Central Command said Sunday that “unidentified remains” have been found and were being examined. 
The deaths reflect the complicated reality that American soldiers don’t need to be on the ground in Iran for there to be lethal risks in a conflict that involves drones, missiles and airplanes. 
American forces are arrayed across the Middle East, making other nations targets of Iran and its allies as the fighting has escalated after a breakdown in peace talks. 
U.S. 
President Donald Trump has said the war is necessary to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons. 
Trump, a Republican, now faces political pressure to bring the war to a close and avoid the kind of prolonged Middle East conflict he had campaigned against. 
An American service member was also killed in northern Iraq on Saturday during a “controlled detonation” of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, U.S. 
Central Command said Sunday. 
A second service member was wounded and was receiving medical treatment for a minor injury. 
The military said it was withholding additional information until 24 hours after families had been notified. 
Iranian authorities said U.S. strikes in just the past three weeks have killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 500 others, including eight killed in a strike on a bridge Friday. 
Both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure relied on by millions of people. 
Workers on ships, as well as foreign workers and others in Gulf nations, Israel and Lebanon have also died in the conflict. 
Shortly after the U.S. and Israel began the war on Feb. 28, an Iranian drone strike at a civilian port in Kuwait killed six American soldiers. 
The soldiers were part of a supply and logistics unit based in Iowa who were working at a shipping container-style building that had no defenses. 
A seventh soldier died more than a week after being wounded during a March 1 attack by Iran on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. 
Later in March, six service members were killed when a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting U.S. military operations against Iran crashed in Iraq. 
The aircraft was in “friendly” airspace when an unspecified incident involving another aircraft took place, according to U.S. 
Central Command. 
Last week, the U.S. military said a Navy pilot died in a helicopter crash in the Arabian Sea. 
The Navy initially described the July 1 crash as an emergency landing and said there was “no indication the emergency was caused by hostile action.” 
The remaining three sailors aboard the helicopter were rescued. 
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No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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