After Kuwait Drone Strike, Wounded U.S. Troops Hit by Medical and Bureaucratic Failures

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