00:00A damning new report is shaking the U.S. military chain of command.
00:03CBS News has obtained accounts from multiple U.S. soldiers
00:07who survived Iran's retaliatory missile strike.
00:10The deadliest attack on American forces since the Iran war began.
00:14They say the Pentagon failed to adequately prepare them for what was coming.
00:19Six U.S. service members were killed and 20 were wounded.
00:22One soldier, Major Stephen Ramsbottom,
00:25said he believes Master Sergeant Nicola Moore could have survived her wounds
00:29if there had been a doctor, a fixed aid station,
00:32or even more than one ambulance at the post.
00:34This was a failure, Ramsbottom told CBS News.
00:38The soldiers describe arriving at a forward position
00:41with insufficient medical supplies and no pre-position trauma care.
00:45Senior military officials dispute this characterization.
00:49But the accounts raise serious questions about force protection decisions
00:53made at the highest levels of the Pentagon.
00:55Congress is demanding answers.
00:57For the families of the fallen, no explanation will ever be enough.
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