WASHINGTON — An Army reservist from Minnesota was killed Sunday in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait. Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor, of White Bear Lake, was with the Iowa-based 103rd Sustainment Command at the Kuwait industrial port of Shuaiba on the Persin Gulf, the Pentagon reported. She was 39. Amor enlisted in the National Guard in 2005 and transferred to the Army Reserve in 2006. She deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in 2019. Amor was on the first casualty list of fallen soldiers from President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury against Iran. The other 103rd fatalities besides Amor included:
> Sergeant Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.
> Captain Cody Khork, 35, of Winger Haven, Florida.
> Sergeant First Class Noah Ttietjens, 42, of Bellview, Nebraska.
Without explanation the Pentagon did not identify the two other fallen U.S. soldiers at Port Shuaiba. There also were 18 other soldiers wounded on Sunday. It wasn’t clear whether the casualties were all in the same attack. Iran was aiming drones and missiles at U.S. military installations, as well as other targets, in Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria and United Arab Emirates.
Amor. Just days away from returning home to her husband and two children in White Bear Lake.