The Department of Defense has confirmed the identity of a Sacramento Army Reservist killed in an Iranian drone strike earlier this month.
The Pentagon announced Wednesday the remains of 54-year-old Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan were positively identified by a medical examiner. The Department of Defense previously said it believed Marzan had died at the scene of the March 1 strike.
He is listed as a resident of Spotsylvania, Virginia but grew up in the Sacramento area, where he enlisted in the Army in 1990. Marzan transferred to the Army Reserve in 1994 and became a Data Operations Warrant Officer in 2011. The Army Reserve said he deployed overseas to Croatia and Bosnia in 1996, and Egypt and Kuwait from 2019-2020…