Wounded U.S. Troops Left Untreated After Kuwait Drone Strike Due to Medical and Bureaucratic Failures

After a March 1 Iranian drone strike killed six U.S. reservists in Kuwait, wounded soldiers faced cascading failures: no doctor on site, one ambulance, and some troops drove themselves to the hospital. Nine days passed before roughly two dozen were evacuated to Landstuhl, Germany, where doctors could offer only limited care — the soldiers hadn't been entered in the Pentagon's casualty database. Four Democratic senators demand answers by August 12.