Overview
- The Defense Department on March 11 confirmed Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54, as the sixth casualty from the March 1 attack at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait.
- The Pentagon attributes the drone strike that hit a U.S. tactical operations center in Kuwait to Iran, with six U.S. service members killed.
- The remains of all six soldiers from the Kuwait attack were returned to the United States on March 7.
- All six were assigned to the Army Reserve’s 103rd Sustainment Command; the other fallen were Capt. Cody A. Khork, Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, Sgt. Declan J. Coady, and Maj. Jeffrey R. O’Brien.
- A separate March 1 attack at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia wounded Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, who died March 8, bringing the total U.S. deaths tied to these incidents to seven and marking the first reported U.S. losses of Operation Epic Fury.