The Pentagon raises to 50 the number of US troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries caused by Iranian ballistic missile strikes on an Iraqi air base earlier this month
US soldiers inspect the site where an Iranian missile hit at Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq January 13, 2020
"As of today, 50 US service members have been diagnosed with TBI," Defense Department spokesman Lt Col Thomas Campbell said in a statement, referring to traumatic brain injury. "Eighteen service members have been transported to Germany for further evaluation and treatment," he added.US President Donald Trump initially said no US troops were injured in the January 8 airstrikes, which Iran carried out in retaliation for the US assassination of its top general for regional operations, Qasem Soleimani.
Addressing reporters in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week, Trump said he "heard that they had headaches, and a couple of other things," calling the injuries "not very serious."
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