Angel Rampersad was previously listed as missing after the strike that killed 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. A fourth Soldier, Sgt. Michael Swinton, was killed days later in Iraq.
The Department of War has identified Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, New York, as the Soldier believed to have been killed after an Iranian missile and drone attack struck Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Rampersad was initially reported missing following the July 17 attack. Her official status has since been updated to Duty Status–Whereabouts Unknown, or DUSTW, and the military says she is believed to be deceased. The incident remains under investigation.
The distinction matters. Rampersad has not yet been formally declared dead under the military’s casualty-accounting process, even as the Department of War has publicly identified her as the third Soldier believed killed in the Jordan attack.
Rampersad was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52nd Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany. She served in the same battalion as Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, another Soldier killed in the attack.
U.S. Central Command initially announced that two service members had been killed and another was missing as American and partner forces defended the base against Iranian ballistic missiles and drones. Four additional service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and later discharged, while other troops evaluated for minor injuries returned to duty.
Military personnel later located unidentified remains near the attack site. CENTCOM said an examination process was underway to verify their identity.
Three Soldiers Lost in Jordan
The Department of War previously identified the other two Soldiers killed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base as 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.
Gonzales was killed in action July 17. Feehan died July 18 from the July 17 enemy attack, according to the Department of War. Early news reports sometimes listed both deaths as occurring on the same day, but the official casualty release gives separate dates.
Feehan was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Gonzales served as a 14P air and missile defense crewmember with the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment. She enlisted in April 2025, joined the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in January 2026 and will be posthumously promoted to private first class.
“We are profoundly saddened by the loss of Pvt. Isabella Gonzales,” Brig. Gen. Glenn Henke, commanding general of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said in an Army release.
“She gave the ultimate sacrifice for her country and will always be remembered as a hero,” Henke said.
Gonzales had graduated from Hebron High School in Carrollton only a year before her death. Lewisville Independent School District remembered her as a student, classmate and friend whose decision to enlist reflected her character and devotion to service.
The three Soldiers in Jordan were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led mission established to defeat the Islamic State group. Their deaths were the first American military fatalities attributed to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war.
Fort Bragg Soldier Killed in Iraq
A fourth Soldier, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed July 19 during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian one-way attack drone at Erbil Air Base in Iraq.
The Department of War said the circumstances surrounding the detonation remain under investigation. Swinton was assigned to D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Bragg.
A second service member suffered a minor injury during the incident.
Swinton enlisted in the Army in 2017 and had served for nearly a decade. The Army plans to posthumously promote him to staff sergeant and award him the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart and Combat Action Badge.
He leaves behind his wife, Mia Gonzalez-Swinton, a 6-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.
His mother, Christel Swinton Andujar, said his wife and children were the center of his world. She described her son as an experienced Soldier who loved his family, his country and the Army.
For those who have worn the uniform, that part of the story cuts through the operational language. Units, awards, casualty classifications and investigation findings all matter, but behind every release is a family whose entire future changed when uniformed officials came to the door.
Four Fallen Soldiers Returned Home
President Donald Trump, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine attended the dignified transfer of the four Soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on July 22.
Army carry teams moved the flag-draped transfer cases from a military transport aircraft as the president, senior military officials and family members looked on. Trump met privately with the families before the ceremony.
Following the deaths, Trump warned that Iran would face retaliation for killing American troops.
“Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over,” Trump wrote on social media.
Hegseth also responded publicly after the Jordan attack, writing, “Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.”
CENTCOM continued launching strikes against Iranian military targets following the deaths. The command said its forces targeted military command centers, air-defense and coastal-surveillance facilities, missile and drone sites, maritime capabilities and communications networks.
Rampersad’s identification brings the number of U.S. service members killed since the war with Iran began on Feb. 28 to 18.
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