Private not first class killed in action?

The rank isn't right, and Pete Hegseth has strong opinions about women in the military.

Male or female, you shouldn't be serving in a combat zone without Pfc at least. Or one would think.

The two possibilities, either of some implied dishonorableness or of not having completed basic training before deployment, are both unlikely. It is confusing, and a subtle indication of something not quite right.

Isabella Gonzales, 19-year-old Army private from Carrollton, killed in Iranian strike on Jordan, Pentagon says
Gonzales was killed in action on Friday during an Iranian strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, the Pentagon said.
On Monday morning, the Pentagon said in a news release that 19-year-old Army Pvt. Isabella Gonzales of Carrollton was killed in action on Friday, during an Iranian strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan. Another Army soldier, 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was killed in action on Saturday. 

Who's Steven Rosenbaum? Rosenberg? Once again, we're stupid civilians and we know next to nothing about military ranks, but you can't be deployed from Texas to Jordan without having completed basic training. Or so we would think. What happened?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Eisenhower Presidential Library

Regardless of the spelling of the name, the author of that particular article is Jewish. They have pretty Israeli women serving in the military as “our” official allies and they don't want American women over there.