Pentagon identifies 4th service member killed as U.S.-Iran war escalates

The U.S. military's Central Command said it completed an 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran at about 8:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday.

The latest round of strikes lasted just over an hour. CENTCOM said in a social media post it hit aircraft hangars, drone storage and operations centers "to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz."

"Over the past three months, Iran has attacked more than 30 commercial vessels transiting the international waterway vital for regional and global trade," CENTCOM said. "The unwarranted attacks have endangered hundreds of innocent mariners and undermined freedom of navigation."

President Trump is set to attend a dignified transfer Wednesday for U.S. service members who were killed in Iranian strikes in recent days.

The transfer is scheduled for 11 a.m. at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, according to the president's schedule.

It's not clear which service members will be part of Wednesday's dignified transfer. Three American soldiers were killed in an Iranian attack on their base in Jordan over the weekend, including one who was previously believed to be missing. One American soldier was killed during the controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in Iraq.

The U.S. military's Central Command said it launched an 11th consecutive night of strikes on Iran at about 7 p.m. ET Tuesday.

"The strikes are designed to continue degrading Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz," CENTCOM wrote on X.

The Pentagon on Tuesday identified a third soldier who is believed to have been killed by Iranian strikes on a Jordanian air base.

The soldier — who was previously assessed as missing — was 28-year-old active-duty Army Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad of Ozone Park, New York, the Defense Department said in a statement. Rampersad was assigned to a unit based in Germany.

"The Soldier status was updated to a Duty Status–Whereabouts Unknown and is believed to be deceased," the military said in its statement.

Eighteen American service members are believed to have been killed since the start of the Iran war, including four U.S. soldiers in recent days — three in an Iranian attack on Jordan and one during a controlled demolition of an Iranian drone in Iraq.

Two Democratic sources and a third source familiar with the matter told CBS News the actual cost of the Iran war is much higher than the $37.5 billion estimate offered Tuesday by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

This is in part because the current estimate does not include costs like military construction for U.S. bases t