Okay, okay, the Iraqi base was not empty... It's just that Iran decided to inform Iraq 8 hours before the missile barrage so US forces could find a safe place to sit this one out.
Injuries
Lt. Col. Tim Garland said two soldiers who had been in guard towers at Ayn Al Asad airbase were blown from their posts during the missile attacks, suffering concussions.
[53]
On 16 January, over a week after the attack, several U.S. defense officials confirmed that "out of an abundance of caution" 11 U.S. troops were
medically evacuated to military hospitals—three to
Camp Arifjan in
Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base,
Kuwait and eight to
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in
Landstuhl, Germany—to be treated for
traumatic brain injury and to undergo further evaluations. The first service member was flown out of Iraq on 10 January, while others were evacuated on 15 January.
[61] According to a senior defense official, "About a week after the attack some service members were still experiencing some symptoms of
concussion," adding that "We only got wind of this in the last 24 hours." Another official said that it was standard procedure for all personnel in the vicinity of a blast to be screened for TBI.
[62]
In contrast to the U.S. reports,
Alqabas, a
Kuwaiti newspaper, wrote on 18 January that 16, not 11, U.S. service members were transferred to Camp Arifjan, some of whom were treated for severe burns and shrapnel wounds as well as TBI.
[63][64]
The injury reports raised questions about initial U.S. assessments that there were no casualties and ignited debate over the Pentagon's longstanding treatment of brain injuries as a different class of wounds that, it says, do not require them to be regarded as "casualties". The Pentagon sharply denied that it attempted to underplay injuries from the attack, with a spokesman saying that the secretary of defense himself only learned of the medevacs a few hours before the general public did, and that brain injuries often take time to manifest and diagnose.
[9][61]
On 24 January a Pentagon spokesman said that 34 service members had traumatic brain injuries from the attack. 18 of them were evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and eight of those were subsequently sent to the U.S. for treatment at
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
[65] Another was evacuated to Kuwait. 16 service members were treated in Iraq and had returned to duty.
[66]
On 28 January, according to several Pentagon officials, around "200 people who were in the blast zone at the time of the attack have been screened for symptoms." As a result, "50 U.S. service members have been diagnosed with TBI." It was said that the number of diagnosed may change,
[67][68] as the new information was that 31 of them had been treated in Iraq, while 18 (up from the previous figure of 17) were treated in Germany.
[67] By 22 February, the official count of troops injured had risen to 110.
[12] The Pentagon said that all were diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury and 77 had already returned to duty.
[12]
In May 2020, 29 soldiers injured in the attack were awarded the
Purple Heart
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i mistakenly wrote ramstein but it was in ladnstuhl. ramstein is the biggest operates the biggest drone base outside the u.s. and landstuhl the biggest military hospital outside the u.s.
yes unlike the u.s. we respect the souvernty of other nations and before make such a move we informed the giverment of iraq which due international has the right to get informed.
You are aware that if a US aircraft carrier is sunk by any nation, the United States will retaliate with nuking that country?
They have far more nuclear weapons than any other country and they are the only country to have nuked another country. To be exact, they nuked a war-mongering, expansionist, die-hard, kamikaze loving Empire into submission.
You guys also keep mentioning the cost will be too high for the US. Not sure why?
First, the US is thousands of miles away from Iran, in fact its located in another continent that Iran can't reach militarily.
Second, they've just finished spending $2 trillion in Afghanistan and it hasn't phased the Americans. It's business as usual for them.
i think you don't get what i am saying. because we can sink a carrier a war won't happen.
if you read economic news regarding the spending on war on terror since 9/11 you will see that is not that simple what you think.
one example is that the u.s. infrastucture is getting worse by every year. all the money to keep their military intact hurt the infrastucture in the u.s.
so your saying that it's business as usual is not right. maybe for people looking from outside yes but people who live in the u.s. can feel the cuts.
here are 2 articals:
The Joe Biden administration is implementing the largest federal investment in infrastructure in decades. Here’s why infrastructure matters for U.S. economic competitiveness.
www.cfr.org
America's infrastructure is desperately in need of investment, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
www.businessinsider.com
you can find alot more if search in google.
Well, as soon as the US got involved sinking Iranian warships during Operation Praying Mantis, Iran sued for peace.
the u.s. was involved all the time 42 countries direct or indirect supported saddam against Iran. saddam even had to recruit foreign foghter pilots cause he didn't had enough trained pilots anymore.
the ceasfire had nothing to do with the u.s. attacking Iranian warships. there are diefferent rumours why khomeini signed the ceasfire.
and one which i believe is when saddam started the 5th battle of the cities he used chemical weapons against Iranian civilians in 1988. if i am not wrong he killed nearly 2000 civilians in oshnavieh a city northe west of Iran. so i don't think it was the u.s. involvement at all.
Why does the US need to use only aircraft carriers against Iran when they have a large array of weaponary at their disposal?
I mean, USAF alone has around 5,000 aircraft and over 400 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
we talked about the navy thats why i was only writing about the carries. of course in a war there will be more than few ships to consider. u.s. bases in the region, nato, israel and the arab vessel states etc.
but later to that.
i hope i could give you some usefull information.
www.independent.co.uk
old.iranintl.com
news.sky.com
www.thedailystar.net
wap.business-standard.com
, shouldn't we all be sad?
www.reuters.com
en.m.wikipedia.org
www.history.navy.mil
