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Eleven U.S. squaddies had been handled for concussion indicators following theIranian missile assaulton Iraqi army bases housing American troops, the U.S. army mentioned.
“Whereas no U.S. carrier contributors had been killed within the Jan. 8 Iranian assault on Al Asad Air contaminated, several had been handled for concussion indicators from the blast and are nonetheless being assessed,” U.S. Central Yelp spokesperson Capt. Bill Urban mentioned in an announcement. “As a used scheme, all personnel within the neighborhood of a blast are screened for anxious brain damage, and if deemed acceptable are transported to a a lot bigger level of care.”
Eight carrier contributors had been transported from the Al Asad Air Obnoxious to Landstuhl Regional Clinical Heart in Germany, and three had been taken to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait for screenings “out of an abundance of warning,” Urban mentioned. The squaddies are anticipated to return to Iraq after being screened.
The missile assault on Jan. 8 used to be retaliation for an American drone strike stop to Baghdad thatkilled top Iranian army commanderQassem Soleimani. The U.S. army and President Donald Trump’s administration officials before all the piecesmentionedthere had been “no casualties” from the assault.
U.S. troops had been warned concerning the missile strike hours sooner than Iran launched them on the contaminated, the military mentioned on Monday.
Write toMahita Gajanan atmahita.gajanan@time.com.