Pentagon: 50 Troops Injured in Iranian Missile Attacks

The number of US service members suffering traumatic brain injuries has been raised to 50, an increase of sixteen since the Pentagon’s last report.

50 Injured in Attacks

Earlier this month, Iran launched missiles at an Iraqi air base hosting American troops and since then the total number of injured service members has been going up. Several days after the attack, the initial count was 11 injured, which then went on to last week’s 34 and this week’s total rounding up to 50.

Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Thomas Campbell said Tuesday that the additional injured troops are all suffering traumatic brain injury, although Campbell also said that 31 out of 50 have returned to duty already, with most receiving treatment in Iraq or military health centers, while some have been sent to Germany for further treatment.

“This is a snapshot in time and numbers can change,” Campbell added.

With this news from the Pentagon, many are now attacking Trump for downplaying the soldiers’ wounds by initially saying that no troops were injured in the missile attacks and after receiving reports for service members with concussion-like symptoms, believing they were “headaches and a couple of other things.”

Those who are angry with the president and feel he’s disrespected the soldiers should consider that the injuries were reported days after the strike, or weren’t even known until a few weeks after.

Traumatic brain injury, abbreviated TBI, is not a light injury in the slightest, affecting brain functions and in varying degrees impairing thinking, memory, vision, and other functions, with the duration and degree of impairment widely varying from case to case.