On January 8, Iran fired missiles at an Iraqi airbase. US troops were given advance notice to take cover, and President Trump insisted there were no casualties. On Friday the 17th, the Pentagon confirmed that wasn’t exactly true.
While there were no deaths, 11 US servicemen were sent abroad for treatment related to concussions sustained in the attack. On Tuesday, Pentagon officials said that the number was actually higher than 11, with additional troops flown to Germany for treatment.
The Pentagon is now refusing to say how many US troops were sent for treatment overall, saying that beyond the 11 previously reported, they are getting treatment in Germany on “an outpatient basis.”
The Pentagon has denied that their lack of reporting on casualties was in any way an attempt to downplay them, and that Defense Secretary Esper only learned about casualties Friday, when the Pentagon went public with them. There has been no justification for why these new casualties weren’t included then, nor indeed why the Pentagon is refusing to provide exact numbers anymore.
I’m absolutely certain that the Iranian claim of 80 killed was, if not exactly accurate, not far off the mark. Over the next weeks you’ll find many American troops suddenly “dying in accidents” or “unrelated combat incidents” in the region as those dead are disguised as happening elsewhere and elsewhen.
We’re shipping troops out for ‘treatment’ as part of a plan to use these ‘casualties’ as a further justification for going to war with Iran.
Since it came out that Iran gave advanced notice maybe the Pentagon was too embarrassed to admit they still couldn’t get the troops out of harms way. Otherwise you would have thought that they would have used those injuries to further vilify Iran.
In some reports it was stated that the drone pilots were not allowed to take shelter but had to take control of the drones and fly them away from harms way. Evidently the drones mean more to the Pentagon than human life. It was stated in that report that some of the injuries were to these pilots. Supposedly none fatal. However, one report is difficult to substantiate if true.