{"id":2840,"date":"2026-09-19T04:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:33:39","slug":"what-else-is-the-pentagon-hiding-from-us-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"What Else Is the Pentagon Hiding From Us? \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">A U.S. Army carry team transports the remains of Army 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for military casualties of the Iran war on July 22, 2026.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Kevin Dietsch\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"section-lead\">More US military personnel<\/span> have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administration\u2019s ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oefu\/deaths\">report released Friday<\/a>, six US officials with knowledge of internal Defense Department data on military casualties, attested that at least 22 service members have died. The Pentagon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oefu\/deaths\">public database<\/a> reports 14 military casualties as of Friday as a result of Operation Epic Fury, which began with the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February. Four more deaths are labeled in a separate category, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dcas.dmdc.osd.mil\/dcas\/conflictCasualties\/oo\/byCategory\">Overseas Operations<\/a>,\u201d despite the Defense Department <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/07\/20\/us-service-members-killed-wounded-iran-war-casualties\/\">previously reporting 18 deaths<\/a> related to Iran.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"qJ9YJEXqUeA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Iran Deal that was Always &amp;apos;About to Happen&amp;apos;: A Supercut\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qJ9YJEXqUeA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/23\/us\/politics\/iran-troop-deaths.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> reported that one reason the Trump administration removed four service members who were killed days earlier from the casualty list\u2014three in Jordan and one in northern Iraq\u2014was that they died after the president declared a ceasefire in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One official told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/09\/18\/more-us-troops-have-died-amid-iran-war-than-pentagon-has-disclosed-publicly\/\"><em>Post<\/em><\/a> that the four additional deaths were not all directly tied to the Iran war, but included military personnel who were separately stationed in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a US service member\u2019s death is formally accounted for, the military initiates an investigation to determine whether they died while performing official duties. The evaluation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militaryonesource.mil\/casualty-mortuary-affairs\/casualty-assistance\/military-death-investigations\/\">directly affects<\/a> the amount of benefits their families receive.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The listed cause of military deaths directly affects the amount of benefits that their families receive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration also appears to be hiding the extent of damage to US military bases. Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-photos-damage-u-s-kuwait-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-missile-attacks\/\">CBS News<\/a> shared photos leaked by active service members of a destroyed Boeing aircraft in an Air Force base in Saudi Arabia. Other photos show destroyed buildings and military barracks at the base. Camp Buehring, a US staging post in Kuwait, had damaged aircraft, as well as armored vehicles, that the administration had not previously acknowledged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the Defense Department\u2019s inspector general <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2026\/Sep\/09\/2003993626\/-1\/-1\/1\/OEF_Q3_JUN2026_FINAL_508%20SECURE.PDF\">released a report<\/a> earlier this week that the war in Iran \u201chas resulted in strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply.\u201d In the first four months, the inspector general valued the cost of military operations at $33.4 billion, not accounting for costs of damaged facilities, while the Trump administration struggles<strong> <\/strong>to accelerate weapons production\u2014a move that the report says has \u201csignificant lead times.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s attempts to conceal those failures\u2014with even less believable claims that the US has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-war-us-israel-trump-2026\/card\/trump-says-every-single-force-wiped-out-in-iran-D6q9fDxzkQY45GTTPuUZ\">wiped every single force in Iran out very completely<\/a>\u201d or that the war is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/deal-no-deal-trumps-iran-contradictions\/\">pretty much<\/a>\u201d over\u2014are prolonging a war that the White House seems determined to lose, and <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryspend.org\/iran-war-casualties\">that has<strong> <\/strong>killed thousands of people<\/a> across the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/09\/pentagon-dod-hegseth-trump-iran-casualties-military-deaths\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Army carry team transports the remains of Army 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base for military casualties of the Iran war on July 22, 2026.Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. 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