The Pentagon’s public tally of US troops wounded during the Iran war increased by 37 this week, without an explanation from the Defense Department about when or how the injuries occurred.
The increase includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to a review of the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, a public database tracking US military personnel killed and wounded during overseas conflicts and operations.
As of Wednesday, DCAS listed 861 US troops as wounded during the Iran conflict. More than half of those cases are categorized in the database under ‘Overseas Operations’ following the start of a July ceasefire between Washington and Tehran that subsequently collapsed.
PENTAGON ‘QUIETLY’ raises IRAN WAR WOUNDED COUNT — WaPo
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29 SAILORS and 8 US MARINES added — TOTAL reaches 861
NO DETAILS given on HOW or WHERE troops were injured pic.twitter.com/cpMxkjbrMA
Earlier casualties were recorded under ‘Operation Epic Fury’, the name used by the Trump administration for the Iran war.
Earlier this month, The Washington Post, in a report citing six Department of War insiders, revealed that more American forces have died across the West Asia region during the US-Israeli war on Iran than are reflected in the US Department of War’s publicly available “casualty records.”
The insiders, who were described as being familiar with the department’s internal casualty accounting data, told the newspaper that at least 22 US military personnel had died, four more than the 18 fatalities listed by the department’s “Defense Casualty Analysis System.”
Source: Agencies (edited by Al-Manar)