Pentagon IDs third US soldier killed in Iranian strike on Jordan base

DoD named Sgt. Angel Rampersad among three Army soldiers killed in the July 17 Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

Identification and unit assignment

Fox News reported that the Department of War released Rampersad’s identity and said she is believed to have been killed in the Iranian attack on the base. According to the network’s reporting, she was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, based in Ansbach, Germany. Fox News said she served as a 25U Signal Operations Support Specialist.

In a statement carried by Fox News, the department extended condolences to her family and others affected by the loss. Multiple accounts of the announcement described her status as updated from missing to believed deceased, and Fox News said the incident remains under investigation.

Earlier casualties from the Jordan attack

Rampersad is the third service member named in connection with the July 17 strike. Fox News previously reported that the Pentagon identified the soldiers killed in the Iranian attacks in Jordan as Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, and 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25. According to that reporting, Feehan was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, while Gonzales was assigned to the same Ansbach-based air defense unit as Rampersad.

U.S. Central Command earlier said two American soldiers had been killed in Iranian missile strikes against Jordan and that one additional U.S. service member remained missing, according to open-source accounts of the command’s statements. Four U.S. personnel were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and later released, while others treated for minor injuries returned to duty, those accounts said.

Context of the strike and U.S. response

The attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base has been described in official and media accounts as involving Iranian ballistic missiles and, in some reporting, drones. Fox News quoted President Donald Trump as acknowledging that Iranian forces “did slip something through in Jordan” and saying he planned to travel to Dover Air Force Base to pay respects to fallen U.S. service members killed in recent attacks attributed to Iran.

Fox News has also reported ongoing U.S. strikes against Iranian targets, citing U.S. Central Command statements that operations are intended to degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Some secondary reports circulating on social media put the broader U.S. military death toll since the start of the Iran conflict at 18; that figure has not been independently detailed in the primary Fox News identification posts and remains as reported by those secondary accounts.

Remains and next steps

According to Fox News and related reporting, Rampersad’s remains were expected to be among those of U.S. soldiers returning to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Officials have described the Jordan base incident as still under investigation. The Defense Department has not publicly released a full forensic account of how each service member was killed, and Rampersad’s status has been framed in official language as “believed” deceased pending completion of that review.