DOD names three soldiers killed in drone attack and reveals roughly 120 troops have been injured in attacks in Middle East

Published January 29, 2024 3:50pm ET



The Department of Defense has released the identities of the three U.S. service members killed in the strike that targeted a U.S. base in Jordan.

Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia, were killed in an Iraqi militia’s strike that hit a small U.S. military outpost in Jordan, near its border with Syria, known as Tower 22.

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