By Ryan Pickrell
President Donald Trump on Monday (click here) doubled down on his assertion that the injuries suffered by US troops during an Iranian missile attack on US forces are "not very serious.
Retaliating for the death of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the hands of the US military, Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at US and coalition forces in Iraq in early January. In the immediate aftermath, the president announced that "no Americans were harmed" and moved to de-escalate tensions.
Since then, the number of US troops diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injuries has steadily risen to 109, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Symptoms of a TBI can be slow to manifest and sometimes harder to detect than other injuries. The Department of Defense has offered this as an explanation for initial misreporting on injuries....
So in professional football TBI is an issue, but, when it comes to professional USA soldiers it is not that serious.
