Posted on Jan 31, 2020
Pentagon Increases U.S. Injury Toll From Iranian Attack Yet Again — To 64
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Once again, the Pentagon is reporting an uptick in the number of U.S. service members injured in Iranian missile strikes earlier this month. The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that at least 64 service members have been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
"We'll continue to monitor them the rest of their lives, actually, and continue to provide whatever treatment is necessary," Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement released with the report. "And we take great pride in the fact that these are our own and we're going to take care of them."
The announcement marks the fourth time in several weeks that the official injury toll has increased. Initially, hours after the Iranian reprisal for the U.S. killing of a prominent military commander, President Trump declared that "no Americans were harmed" in the attacks on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.
But the Pentagon later contradicted those remarks, first noting in a formal statement that 11 service members had been injured, then 34 — and, just earlier this week, 50.
"We'll continue to monitor them the rest of their lives, actually, and continue to provide whatever treatment is necessary," Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement released with the report. "And we take great pride in the fact that these are our own and we're going to take care of them."
The announcement marks the fourth time in several weeks that the official injury toll has increased. Initially, hours after the Iranian reprisal for the U.S. killing of a prominent military commander, President Trump declared that "no Americans were harmed" in the attacks on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.
But the Pentagon later contradicted those remarks, first noting in a formal statement that 11 service members had been injured, then 34 — and, just earlier this week, 50.
Pentagon Increases U.S. Injury Toll From Iranian Attack Yet Again — To 64
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I see how this can drag out. I can't speak for others, but I was one of those jerks in the military who felt they could tough it out. The first time I got shot I treated it myself and finally showed our medic three or four days later -- it was fine. Perhaps some of these more recently diagnosed cases were troops as dumb as me, thinking they should suck it up and drive on. But as is the nature of TBI, it can catch up with you later.
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SrA Jared Hall
Remember, headaches have never been considered serious injuries by any military member either, and they are not as serious as severed limbs, sucking chest wounds, severed arteries, ruptured organs, collapsed lungs etc. TBI is an injury, but you’re misquoting the entirety of the situation, and if you’re trying to imply that Trump doesn’t care about TBI then where have you been for the past 20 years, or past wars? Young men and women have been repeatedly rocketed and mortared, and have been subject to IED blasts, and if they complained of headaches, their leadership—MSgts included—would have scoffed them for malingerers and told them to suck it up. So why does it take a Trump misquote to get everyone sympathetic to even the possibility of TBI in troops?
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