00:21The Pentagon has quietly added 37 more wounded US troops to its Iran war casualty tally.
00:30That brings the publicly listed number of wounded service members to 861.
00:36The latest additions include 29 Navy sailors and 8 Marines, according to a Washington Post review of the Pentagon's defense
00:45casualty analysis system.
00:48But there is a major question surrounding those new numbers.
00:51The Pentagon has provided no details on when, where, or how these 37 service members were injured.
01:00A Navy official told the Washington Post that all 29 sailors returned to duty after their unspecified injuries.
01:08No equivalent public information has been provided about the eight Marines.
01:13And the Pentagon has not publicly identified any recent attack or incident that would explain these additions.
01:21The Navy and Marine Corps referred questions to US Central Command, while CENTCOM declined to comment.
01:28The latest update also highlights the complicated way the Pentagon is now counting casualties from the Iran conflict.
01:38DCAS lists about 418 wounded under Operation Epic Fury, the administration's name for the campaign that began on February 28.
01:48Another 443 are listed under a separate category called Overseas Operations.
01:56Together, those figures bring the public wounded total to 861.
02:01The Pentagon has previously acknowledged that casualty data can take days or longer to appear in the system.
02:10Officials have cited delays in documenting injuries, such as concussions and traumatic brain injuries, whose symptoms may not immediately become
02:19apparent.
02:20But the latest 37 additions come without any accompanying explanation from the Defense Department, and that is raising fresh questions
02:30about how the human cost of the Iran conflict is being recorded.
02:34For now, the official public figure stands at 861 wounded U.S. personnel, including 29 newly listed sailors and eight
02:45Marines, with no public details about the circumstances of their injuries.
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