Pete Hegseth will speak at 7 a.m. Central with updates on the Iran war. Watch his press conference live. An Iowa soldier has fallen in a Middle East conflict. Hegseth is expected to address that during his talk.
Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, a sophomore at Drake University and Army reservist from West Des Moines, was killed in action in Kuwait on Sunday, March 1, in an Iranian strike at Shuaiba Port in Kuwait. The attack also killed three other soldiers assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, a Des Moines-based unit.
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