Pentagon increases U.S. injury toll from Iranian attack yet again — to 64

Partly for this reason, Trump has come under criticism from outside groups — such as the Veterans of Foreign Wars — for generally dismissing the injuries to dozens of U.S. service members as “headaches” that fail to compare with what he considers “very serious injuries,” such as lost arms and legs.

“I think for many people this is a learning process,” Esper said at the news conference, declining to comment directly on Trump’s remarks.

“This is something we’ve come to learn about,” he added, “over the past 10 to 15 years as we’ve seen IED [improvised explosive device] attacks on our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. So again, this is an injury we need to keep educating everybody about.”

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