White Bear Lake soldier's widower confronts Vance over Kuwait drone failures
At a CBS News town hall in Michigan, the widower of Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor confronted Vice President JD Vance over leadership failures tied to the Kuwait drone strike that killed Amor.[1]
Joey Amor told Vance that "fundamental failures" and leadership mistakes led to the attack, citing what his wife and other soldiers had described and what CBS had reported.[1] Vance said he had not heard those specific allegations before, but he acknowledged there likely were failures and said he wanted to fix them.[1]
On March 1, a drone strike in Kuwait killed six U.S. soldiers, including 39-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake. Associated Press reporting said soldiers believed the Pentagon had not taken Iranian threats to the Kuwait port seriously enough before the strike.
The town hall exchange renewed scrutiny of military and Pentagon decisions in the opening days of the Iran war, and it added to calls from military families for answers about what went wrong in Kuwait.[1]
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- Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake was among six U.S. soldiers killed in a March 1 drone strike in Kuwait, one day after the Iran war began.
- At a CBS News town hall in Michigan, her widower Joey Amor told Vice President JD Vance that "fundamental failures" and leadership mistakes led to the attack, citing what his wife and other soldiers had described and what CBS had reported.
- Vance said this was the first he had heard of those alleged failures, but acknowledged there likely were failures and said he wants to fix them.
- Associated Press had previously reported that soldiers believed the Pentagon did not take Iranian threats to the Kuwait port seriously enough before the strike.
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