随着停火谈判的进展陷入停滞，美国在伊朗战争中的伤亡人数持续上升，特朗普政府于7月7日宣布“Epic Fury”军事行动已经结束，试图以此来重新塑造美国在战争中的形象。然而，在此后的12周里，美军伤亡的人数反而超过了“Epic Fury”行动期间18周内的伤亡总数。根据五角大楼的官方统计，在所有880名受伤或死亡的美国军人中，有444人是在7月7日之后受伤或死亡的。
As ceasefire negotiations faltered and U.S. casualties of the Iran war mounted, the Trump administration on July 7 attempted to rebrand the struggling war effort by announcing the conclusion of Operation Epic Fury. But in the 12 weeks since, more U.S. military personnel have been injured and killed than in the 18 weeks of Epic Fury. Of the 880 U.S. troops left wounded or dead, 444 have occurred since July 7, according to the official Pentagon count.
据五角大楼称，仅本月，唐纳德·特朗普总统主导的这场战争就已经导致近100名美军士兵受伤或死亡。其中还包括上周新增的29名海军水兵和8名海军陆战队员。此前，一位伊朗高级官员声称美国遭到了新型“反舰导弹”的攻击，导致美军遭受重创。据两位不愿公开姓名的美国官员向《The Intercept》透露，这些海军陆战队员是在9月14日的一次巡航导弹袭击中受伤的；他们当时正在霍尔木兹海峡的一艘不明身份的船上，可能遭受了脑部创伤等伤害。这一袭击事件最初由NBC新闻报道。
President Donald Trump’s war of choice has left nearly 100 U.S. troops wounded or dead this month alone, according to the Pentagon. This includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines added last week to the official tally of those injured, following claims by a top Iranian official that an attack with a new “anti-ship missile” had “created hell for the Americans.”The Marines were injured in a cruise missile attack on September 14, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity. The Marines were aboard an unidentified vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, they said, and potentially suffered brain trauma among other injuries. The attack was first reported by NBC News.
此外，根据英国海事贸易运营组织（UK Maritime Trade Operations）的通报，同一天霍尔木兹海峡还有一艘货船遭到了导弹袭击。不过，这些官员并未透露是否有海军陆战队员被部署在穿越该海峡的商船上。
A cargo ship was hit that same day by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization. The officials would not say if Marines have been stationed on commercial vessels transiting the Strait.
海军没有回答《The Intercept》关于水兵们何时以及在何处受伤的提问。一位海军官员表示，伤亡情况已经得到“彻底核实”，但拒绝透露具体受影响的部队名称。这一系列伤亡事件的增加，正值有关伊朗对美军袭击造成的损失的具体细节逐渐浮出水面的时候。根据空军参谋长肯·威尔斯巴赫将军的说法，仅在今年的前38天内，空军人员就遭遇了超过1200次“警报红色”（即导弹、飞机或地面部队即将发动攻击的紧急警报）。
The Navy did not answer The Intercept’s questions about when and where the sailors were wounded. A Navy official said that casualties had been “fully validated” but would not name the affected “units.”This latest in a series of casualty spikes comes as additional details of the toll of Iranian attacks on U.S. troops become more apparent. Air Force personnel, alone, endured more than 1,200 “alarm reds” — the official code for imminent attack by missiles, aircraft, or ground forces — during just 38 days earlier this year, according to Air Force chief of staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach.
他还指出，这些伊朗袭击还导致420多名负责处理爆炸物的技术人员不得不进行危险的任务（即“在危险环境中处理爆炸物”）。处理这类弹药可能非常危险：7月份，在伊拉克埃尔比勒空军基地，北卡罗来纳州费耶特维尔的陆军中士迈克尔·埃马纽埃尔·斯温顿在处理伊朗袭击无人机时不幸丧生，另一名士兵也受了伤。
He noted that these Iranian strikes also led to more than 420 “long lonely walks” by explosive ordnance disposal technicians. Dealing with such munitions can be lethal: Army Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was killed and another soldier was wounded “during a controlled detonation” of an Iranian attack drone at Iraq’s Erbil Air Base in July.
唐纳德·特朗普总统最近称与伊朗的冲突“无关紧要”；副总统杰德·万斯则认为这并不是一场“战争”；商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克则表示：“目前还没有美国士兵死亡，这实际上只是一种经济上的压制手段。”根据五角大楼的官方统计，至少有19名美军人员在这场冲突中丧生，其中11人死于敌方的火力攻击。实际上，自战争爆发以来，该地区美军士兵的死亡人数远高于这一数字。
President Donald Trump recently said the conflict with Iran is “small potatoes,” Vice President JD Vance asserted it is not a “war,” and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced: “There haven’t been American deaths, it’s really just an economic choke-out.”At least 19 personnel have died according to the official Pentagon count of war dead, including 11 killed by hostile fire. The actual number of troop deaths in the region since the war began is higher.
最新确认的死亡案例是来自弗吉尼亚州诺福克的比安卡·威尔克森上尉——据她的兄弟透露，她于9月18日因“冠状动脉问题”去世。据《Virginian-Pilot》的报道，她于9月10日从沙特阿拉伯返回美国，正在返程途中不幸遇难。
The latest known fatality is Capt. Bianca Wilkerson, 37, of Norfolk, Virginia, who died on September 18 from a “coronary issue,” according to her brother. He said she returned from Saudi Arabia on September 10 and was headed back but died on the return flight, according to reporting by the Virginian-Pilot.
《The Intercept》杂志在过去近六个月的时间里，一直持续报道国防伤亡分析系统（Defense Casualty Analysis System, DCAS）网站上公布的官方数据存在异常。该系统负责为国会和白宫提供关于美军伤亡人员的详细信息。例如，4月21日，战斗中受伤的军人人数突然减少了15人，但国防部并未对此作出任何公开说明。尽管《The Intercept》多次提出质疑，五角大楼仍未对这些数据差异作出任何解释。
For almost six months, The Intercept has reported on anomalies in official counts offered on the website of the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, which tracks “deceased, wounded, ill or injured” service members for Congress and the White House. On April 21, for example, the number of wounded-in-action troops declined by 15 without public acknowledgment by the War Department. Despite repeated questions for months, the Pentagon has not commented on the disparities. Prior reporting by The Intercept also found that the Pentagon’s official tally of dead and wounded personnel is a gross undercount, stemming from what one U.S. government official called a “casualty cover-up.”
此前《The Intercept》的报道还指出，五角大楼公布的伤亡人数严重偏低，这一现象源于美国政府内部所谓的“伤亡数据隐瞒行为”。当《华盛顿邮报》也提出类似质疑时，自封为“战争部长”的皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）称该报道“令人作呕且纯属虚假”。目前，五角大楼公布的阵亡军人名单中仍缺少纽约陆军国民警卫队的一名信号与通信军官——索夫利·戴维乌斯（Sorffly Davius）的名字。戴维乌斯于3月6日在科威特布林营（Camp Buehring）执行任务时不幸牺牲。
When the Washington Post also recently suggested that the Pentagon had suppressed the casualty numbers, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth called the report “DISGUSTING and FAKE.”The Pentagon’s list of the names of the dead is still, for example, missing Maj. Sorffly Davius, a signals and communication officer with the New York Army National Guard who was assigned to the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division and died while on duty in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on March 6. The military has claimed that Davius was part of another mission but a recent National Guard news release noted that when “Trump made the decision to attack Iran and launched Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, the division headquarters began conducting combat operations.”
军方最初声称戴维乌斯当时正在执行另一项任务，但国民警卫队最近发布的新闻稿指出：“当特朗普于2月28日决定对伊朗发动攻击并启动‘Epic Fury’行动时，该部队总部便立即开始了战斗行动。”据该部队指挥官杰克·詹姆斯（Jack James）少将称，第42步兵师参与了这场“美国陆军历史上规模最大、也是首次实施的远程精确打击行动”。詹姆斯特别提到了戴维乌斯的贡献；国民警卫队也承认戴维乌斯在牺牲时仍在执行作战任务。
The 42nd served as the primary headquarters leading what became, according to Maj. Gen. Jack James, the division commander, the “largest and first long-range precision fires campaign in the history of the United States Army.”James specifically saluted Davius whom the Guard admitted was “conducting operations” when he died.
上周被添加到 DCAS（死亡、受伤和失踪人员统计系统）中的那8名海军陆战队员，其信息实际上是在9月14日袭击发生近10天后才被录入系统的。据两位曾参与该系统数据更新工作的人士透露，历史上，战场上的伤亡人员信息几乎会立即被录入 DCAS 系统。“我们能够非常迅速地获取并报告伤亡人数，”曾在反恐战争期间参与 DCAS 数据处理的琼·克伦肖（Joan Crenshaw）此前对《The Intercept》杂志表示，这些数据每天都会被更新。
The eight Marines added to DCAS last week appeared in the tally almost 10 days after the September 14 attack. Historically, there was little lag between a casualty occurring in the field and its inclusion in the DCAS system, according to two people who used to work on the official casualty tally. “We got it very quickly. We could report the number of casualties very fast,” Joan Crenshaw, who worked on DCAS during the war on terror, previously told The Intercept, noting that data was refreshed daily.
一位现任美国官员也向《The Intercept》透露，近期数据上报延迟的现象既是由于工作失误，也是出于对公众舆论影响的考虑而故意拖延处理的结果。
A current U.S. official also previously told The Intercept that the recent reporting lags are a blend of incompetence and deliberate slow-walking of casualty data to manage public fallout.
正如《The Intercept》此前所报道的那样，伊朗利用攻击性无人机和先进的弹道导弹在中东地区压制美国防空系统的能力，已经使美国军方处于极其危险的境地。尽管特朗普和赫格塞斯（Hegseth）多次声称伊朗军队已被彻底摧毁，但根据美国官员及伊朗方面的消息，伊朗仍对中东地区的15多个美军基地发动了袭击。
Iran’s ability to overwhelm U.S. air defenses in the Middle East using attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles, as previously reported by The Intercept, has left the U.S. military in a precarious situation. Despite months of claims by Trump and Hegseth that Iran’s military was annihilated, Iran has attacked more than 15 bases across the Middle East, according to information from U.S. officials and Iranian reports.
美国中央司令部（Central Command）称，这些袭击导致美国在巴林、伊拉克、约旦、科威特、阿曼、卡塔尔、沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国的军事基地内的数百处设施遭到损坏或摧毁。据威尔斯巴赫（Wilsbach）报道，仅空军人员就在一个多月的时间里修复了48个机场设施。
These strikes damaged or destroyed hundreds of facilities at U.S. bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, according to Central Command. Air Force personnel alone conducted 48 airfield repairs in a little more than a month, according to Wilsbach.
2月28日，伊朗发动的导弹和无人机袭击摧毁了位于巴林麦纳麦的美军基地——该地区美国最重要的军事后勤枢纽。五角大楼此前几个月一直坚称这些袭击并未对美军作战行动产生重大影响，但现任海军部长洪·曹（Hung Cao）最近承认，伊朗的袭击确实对巴林造成了严重破坏。
An Iranian missile and drone attack on February 28 destroyed Navy facilities in Manama, Bahrain, the region’s most critical U.S. military logistics hub. The Pentagon claimed for months that the strikes did not significantly impact military operations, but acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao recently admitted that Iran “blew the hell out of Bahrain.”