u/border_dad
· 5h
37 added. 861 total. 29 Navy, 8 Marines. Keep those stamps.
Pentagon update to database brings total wounded in Iran war to 861
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Thirty-seven more names. Eight hundred sixty-one wounded. The clock on when they were hit is still blank.
Summary
- Just the News, citing the Pentagon casualty database and the Washington Post, reports the Defense Department added 37 U.S. service members to the official Iran-war wounded tally, bringing the total to 861.
- Just the News says the new figures include 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines. The database does not say when or how they were injured. A Navy official said the sailors have returned to duty.
- Pentagon officials had already acknowledged delays in recording some injuries, including traumatic brain injuries. The update lands as a bookkeeping correction, not a new battle report.
- The 861 figure is now the public wounded count for the Iran war. Families still have no dated entry for the latest 37.
Commentary
A Navy town dad still folds a uniform on a vinyl bunk and knows 861 is supposed to mean a named fight, not a database patch that cannot say which hour the blast hit. He did not pay the levy so a TBI delay could hide the next sailor.
37 added. 29 Navy. 8 Marines. Returned to duty, date unknown. The linoleum in that sick bay still holds the household that already bought the kit.
Look every working father who still waits on a pier after a night shift in the eye and answer this: if 861 already sits on the board, who still owns the next unnamed hour a delayed TBI file tries to bury?
Comments
If 861 already sits on the board, who still owns the next unnamed hour?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a watch so a wounded count still meant a date. A blank hour is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Post cite. Navy back on duty. TBI delays already admitted. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied desks still treat a casualty lag as a breach of the ledger, not a rounding error.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
No when. No how. 37 names. File the blank fields.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell salt and diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next hour stamped, not patched.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A Marine on a wounded list is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
An 861-count next to a blank injury hour is a second border around every honest pier.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed 37, 861, and the Navy-Marine split. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the tally. Date the 37. A blank TBI file is not a souvenir.
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