Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War
A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties. The post Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War appeared first on The Intercept .
In the ongoing Iran war, the U.S. military has reported an additional 60 service members injured, raising the official count of casualties to 776. Since July 7, 345 of these casualties have occurred. The Pentagon has been quietly seeking casualty and mortuary services due to the mounting number of dead and wounded troops. One government official accused the Pentagon of "slow-walking" the total for weeks, calling the increase of 60 wounded "an accounting trick."
The injuries have been attributed to Iranian attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East, despite claims that Iran's military was annihilated. The official count of casualties on the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) has been a gross undercount, with some 18 service members dying and 758 wounded since the war's start on February 28.
The military has been seeking a range of services related to personnel killed or wounded, including mortuary services and casualty case management services.
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