1st Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan

1st Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was assigned to Army Air and Missile Defense Command. He died on 18 July 2026, killed in the Iranian missile and drone attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, near Azraq in eastern Jordan .

The Pentagon named him on 20 July, alongside Private Isabella Gonzales, who was killed in the same attack a day earlier. CENTCOM had announced the deaths on 18 July without naming either soldier, and the cumulative toll stayed contested until the Pentagon released the names .

Feehan served in air and missile defence rather than in the strike packages the war is being fought with, the unit that catches what nightly bombing does not prevent. A further status change on Sergeant Angel S. Rampersad, also assigned to the air defence units at Muwaffaq Salti, brought the cumulative US death toll to 18 the following day. On 24 July the Pentagon revised its official war toll from 18 to 14, removing Feehan's name along with three others; acting press secretary Joel Valdez attributed the change to temporary data disruptions, while three military officials separately told the New York Times the four were removed because they died after the late-April ceasefire declaration. Both explanations remain on the record; neither has been withdrawn. The revision is an administrative recount, not a retraction of the fact of his death, which the Pentagon confirmed on 20 July.