PENTAGON now says, 34 soldiers diagnosed with brain injuries

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3 days ago it was 11. This AM it was 24. Late on a FRI AFTERNOON, they adjust the # again? So it's not only "headaches and other things". It doesn't say whether they were evac'd. I assume so. You need MRI's and neurological workups--I feel sure they didn't have that capacity there.

Pentagon says 34 U.S. troops were diagnosed with brain injuries after Iranian missile attack



A U.S. airman searches for salvageable items in the debris caused by the Jan. 8 ballistic missile attack at al-Asad air base in Iraq. (Spc Derek Mustard/Us Army Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) (Spec. Derek Mustard/U.S. Army/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)By Dan Lamothe

Jan. 24, 2020 at 3:18 p.m. EST

The Pentagon said Friday that 34 U.S. service members were diagnosed with varying degrees of brain injuries after Iran’s ballistic missile attack in Iraq this month, an increase in the number of troops known to have been hurt in the explosions.

President Trump said the morning after the Jan. 8 attack that no U.S. troops were harmed. But defense officials have said information about injuries was not relayed to Washington until later because no service members suffered loss of life, limb or eyesight.

On Wednesday, Trump downplayed the significance of the brain injuries.

“I heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things,” he said. “But I would say, and I can report, it is not very serious, not very serious.”

The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, told reporters during a news conference Friday that the service members were diagnosed with “concussions and TBI,” or traumatic brain injury....



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