11 treated for TBI after Iraq attack

Eleven U.S. personnel were wounded in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base. They have been medically evacuated to U.S. military hospitals in Kuwait and Landstuhl, Germany, to be treated for traumatic brain injury, and to undergo further evaluation, several defense and military officials confirmed to Defense One. Senior military and Trump administration officials had said on Jan. 8 that 11 Iranian missiles had caused “no casualties, no friendly casualties, whether they are U.S., coalition, contractor, et cetera.” In the past week, the NY Times reported Jan. 13 that some personnel had been treated for concussions. In a Jan. 16 statement, a spokesman for the U.S. military command in Baghdad said, several military personnel were “treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed.” (Source: Defense One 01/16/20) https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/01/eleven-us-troops-were-injured-jan-8-iran-missile-strike/162502/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl