The Kabul Tribune (KT) — Fox News reported that the U.S. Department of Defense has identified Benjamin Pennington, a U.S. Army sergeant, as the seventh American service member killed in the ongoing conflict with Iran.
Pennington, 26, from Glendale, Kentucky, died a week after
being seriously wounded during an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi
Arabia on March 1, according to the Defense Department. He died from his
injuries Sunday.
Pennington was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion, 1st
Space Brigade at Fort Carson in Colorado, which is part of the U.S. Army Space
and Missile Defense Command.
JD Vance, the vice president of the United States, said
during remarks at the International Association of Fire Fighters legislative
conference in Washington, D.C. that Pennington’s remains were expected to be
returned to the United States later that day.
The other U.S. service members reported killed in the
conflict include Declan Coady, Cody Khork, Nicole Amor, Noah Tietjens, Jeffrey
O’Brien and Robert Marzan.
