11 injured after trump said no injuries on the 8th. No response. Unacceptable
I understand the sentiment, but Trump probably didn't know about the injuries https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-esper-didnt-know-troops-injured-after-iran-missile-attack-2020-1
The injuries were concussions (TBI) which take days or weeks to show up. At the time, everyone seemed OK.
That's no quite accurate. Those 11 were ORDERED to undergo examinations for POSSIBLE concussions due to being close to explosions. This was also well after the attacks on Iraqi bases. Everyone is back at work now. This is just another spin to try to get you to believe Trump lied. He did not.
If this .....
"As a standard procedure, all personnel in the vicinity of a blast are screened for traumatic brain injury, and if deemed appropriate are transported to a higher level of care. In the days following the attack, out of an abundance of caution, some service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base, Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, others were sent to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for follow-on screening,"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/01/16/us-troops-treated-injuries-after-iran-missile-attack/4496310002/
had of been standard procedure during Korea or Vietnam to hospitalize or pull off the line for medical screening, because a soldier was in the 'vicinity' of a blast. There would not have been enough hospitals and no soldiers left in the field.
To be sure explosives in the 50's, 60's-70's were just as loud and concussive as today, but it seems even with todays defective earplug lawsuits and proximity to a "bang' it renders our forces too damaged for combat.
At this rate we will see the troops fitted with the foam helmets and noise cancelling headphones they give to autistic schoolkids. Millions of Korean/Vietnam veterans whose ears have been ringing for decades to be sure would shake their heads at this level of "OMG OMG there was a loud noise" reaction.
It wouldn't be surprising that the command said no injuries other than a few bells rung.