A soldier from Minnesota was among those killed in last weekend’s military strikes in the Middle East, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The agency reported Tuesday that Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, was killed Sunday in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, during an unmanned aircraft system attack.
Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children.
“She was almost home,” her husband, Joey Amor, said from their Minnesota home on Tuesday. “You don’t go to Kuwait thinking something’s going to happen, and for her to be one of the first – it hurts.”…