The deceased were identified as Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Capt. Cody Khork; Nicole Amor; Noah Tietjens; Declan Coady.Credit : U.S. Army Reserve

Four of the six United States service members killed in a drone strike during the ongoing war with Iran have been identified by the Pentagon.

The deceased, all Army Reserve Soldiers, were identified as Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa.

They died on Sunday, March 1 in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, during an “unmanned aircraft system attack,” officials wrote, noting that the incident remains under investigation.

The names of the additional two service members who died have yet to be revealed.

Four service members killed in a drone strike in Kuwait

News of their deaths were confirmed on Monday, March 2, by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

The six became the first U.S. service members to die during the war, according to CNN, which reported that they were killed on Sunday morning by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at the Shuaiba port in Kuwait.

A previous post from CENTCOM, when it was still thought that three service members had been killed in the attack, stated that the attack occurred at a “facility that was struck during Iran’s initial attacks in the region.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said on March 2 that the attack occurred when an incoming munition hit a tactical operations center in the country, according to CBS News. Hegseth noted that the operations center was “fortified,” but there was “one” projectile that made it through air defenses, CNN reported.

The aftermath of an Iranian strike on Kuwait.AFP via Getty

The deaths follow Donald Trump’s announcement of “massive and ongoing” military action in Iran on Saturday, Feb. 28.

The purported goal of the war, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” is to help weaken the Iranian government, which the U.S. views as hostile, and the U.S. also says it wants to stop the development of Iran’s nuclear program

Iranian forces launched a counterattack, retaliating with strikes across the Middle East.

Trump has predicted that “there will likely be more” U.S. serviced members who die during the battle and has not ruled out boots-on-the-ground military action in Iran.

Roughly 800 people have died so far in the early days of the war between the United States, Israel and Iran and the majority of the casualties have been in Iran, according to NBC News, Al Jazeera and The Wall Street Journal.

The aftermath of an Iranian strike in Kuwait.AFP via Getty

One strike on an girl’s school in Iran killed almost 200 people.

On Feb. 28, half of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school in Minab was decimated by the explosion, leaving at least 175 dead, The New York Times reported, noting that it was not immediately apparent why the school was hit, or which forces were responsible, though the school is near a naval base that was targeted.

In response to reports of the attack, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S. forces “would not deliberately target a school,” according to the newspaper.

“We are aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations,” Capt. Tim Hawkins, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, told the Times on Feb. 28. “We take these reports seriously and are looking into them.”

The list of the dead also includes Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.