An ‘Ewa Beach Army soldier killed in action in Jordan last week has been removed from the U.S. Department of War’s list of casualties.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tyler Feehan, 25, was killed in action on July 18, following an attack on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, according to a Monday statement by the DoW.
However, on Thursday, Feehan’s name — along with that of Pvt. Isabelle Gonzales, 19, and Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, who were killed in the same attack, and Sgt. Michael Swinton, 30, killed on July 19 at the Erbil Air Base in Iraq — disappeared from the DoW’s Defense Casualty Analysis System, which tracks U.S. military casualties.
The DoW referred Aloha State Daily to a social media post by Sean Parnell, assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs, who attributed the removal of the names to “temporary data disruptions” on the DCAS website. Those anomalies are “currently being resolved,” Parnell wrote.
Nonetheless, the removal of the names has prompted responses from U.S. senators. Sen. Mazie Hirono, along with 11 other senators, co-signed a letter to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday inquiring about the reliability of the DCAS.
The letter formally requested “a comprehensive accounting of the number of service members who have been killed, wounded, or injured” in the U.S. military’s current conflict with Iran, called Operation Epic Fury.
The letter quoted a previous statement by Parnell, who claimed on July 20 that “while nearly 100 service members were deemed to have some degree of injury since July 7, 2026, 96% have returned to duty.” However, at time of publication, DCAS lists five soldiers wounded in action in Operation Epic Fury in July, and, with the omission of Feehan’s, Gonzales’, Rampersad’s and Swinton’s names, only 14 fatalities.
“We are concerned that DCAS is not being maintained at the granular level and calls into serious question the completeness and reliability of the aggregate totals,” the senators’ letter reads.
The letter concludes with a request that the DoW provide full numbers of all those killed or wounded in the operation, how many have returned to full duty, details on whether those casualties were caused in hostile or non-hostile circumstances, corresponding figures of injuries provided to U.S. Central Command, how CENTCOM determines when injuries should be disclosed, whether any casualties are being listed for operations other than Epic Fury, when accurate casualty data will be available on DCAS, and more. The letter requests this data be available by July 30.
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