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Pentagon quietly updates how it categorizes Iran war casualties
18 U.S. service members have been killed and more than 600 have been wounded since the war began.
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18 U.S. service members have been killed since the war began.
The Pentagon has updated its public-facing casualty database after abruptly revising its Iran war casualty figures last week, when it reduced the number of U.S. troops listed as killed in Operation Epic Fury from 18 to 14 and removed dozens of wounded service members from that tally.
The Defense Department now appears to be tracking casualties in its Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) under a new category labeled Overseas Operations rather than Operation Epic Fury, the namesake previously used for the Iran campaign – in effect restarting its accounting of dead and wounded in the war.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth salute as a U.S.
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