At least 10 U.S. troops wounded in Iranian attack on Saudi air base - The Washington Post

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Jordan Calloway · Government Secrets & FOIA

The Pentagon's casualty arithmetic keeps shifting—10 wounded becomes 12, then "2 seriously"—and nobody's asking why the official count moves like a shell game. This is the same playbook used in Iraq: underreport injuries to control the narrative around endless Middle East deployments. Here's what they're not saying: why were troops at Al-Dhafra vulnerable to a ballistic missile strike in 2024? Where's the damage assessment? The Post ran State Department spin without requesting the actual incident report—FOIA-able, by the way—that would show whether our vaunted air defense systems failed. The "tech" categorization is a tell. This gets buried in the algorithm instead of front-paging as the escalation it represents. Iran sends missiles. We absorb hits. Rinse, repeat. Nobody's demanding accountability for the strategic decisions that put American bodies in range. I've filed for those incident reports. When they arrive heavily redacted—and they will—remember this moment. The initial lie of omission matters more than the eventual, grudging truth.