五角大楼在周五晚上悄悄承认了伊朗战争中的额外死亡人数，此前《拦截者》多次要求其对战争部网站上追踪美国人员伤亡的不准确统计数据作出解释。
The Pentagon quietly acknowledged additional Iran war deaths on Friday evening after The Intercept repeatedly demanded an explanation for inaccurate statistics on a War Department website tracking U.S. casualties from the conflict.
根据五角大楼的官方统计，在与伊朗的战争中，近900名美军人员受伤或死亡，其中包括周五新增的两人死亡。这使得五角大楼的死亡总数升至21人。
Almost 900 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the war with Iran, according to the official Pentagon count, including the two deaths added on Friday. This raises the Pentagon’s total to 21 dead.
新增的战争死亡人员包括信号和通信军官索尔夫利·达维乌斯少校（Maj. Sorffly Davius），他是纽约陆军国民警卫队成员，曾被分配至第42步兵师司令部，并于3月6日在科威特的布尔赫营（Camp Buehring）执勤期间死亡。超过六个月来，《拦截者》已通过数十封电子邮件和与五角大楼官员的电话交谈，以及在10篇公开文章中，多次提出达维乌斯的案例。
The additional war dead include 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. For more than six months, The Intercept has raised Davius’s case in dozens of emails and phone conversations with Pentagon officials and publicly in 10 articles.
五角大楼最近对国防伤亡分析系统（DCAS）的网站进行了更新——该系统为国会和白宫提供官方伤亡数据——并加入了更详细的伤亡类别表格。但最初，该网站并未列出任何因“非敌对性”疾病或受伤导致的死亡案例，尽管五角大楼曾在3月份宣布，达维乌斯的死“源于一起非战斗相关事件”。起初，军方声称达维乌斯参与的是另一项行动，而非“史诗怒火”行动——这是伊朗战争最初的代号。
The Pentagon recently revamped the website of the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS — which provides official counts of dead and wounded for Congress and the White House — to include more detailed casualty category tables. But it initially listed no “non-hostile” illness or injury fatalities, despite the Pentagon announcing in March that Davius died “as a result of a non-combat related incident.”At first, the military claimed that Davius was involved in another operation instead of Epic Fury — the original designation of the Iran war.
然而两周前，《拦截者》网站披露，美国国民警卫队最近发布的一份新闻稿承认：“当唐纳德·特朗普总统决定攻击伊朗并于2月28日发起‘史诗怒火’行动时，第42步兵师指挥部便已开始执行战斗任务。”据该师师长杰克·詹姆斯少将称，第42师是领导这场行动的主要指挥部，而这场行动后来成为“美国陆军历史上规模最大、首次实施的远程精确火力打击行动”。詹姆斯特别提到了达维乌斯，国民警卫队承认他在去世时正在“执行任务”。
Two weeks ago, however, The Intercept revealed that a recent National Guard news release admitted that when “President Donald Trump made the decision to attack Iran and launched Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, the [42nd Infantry] division headquarters began conducting combat operations.”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，《拦截者》网站向五角大楼指出了网站上“史诗怒火”行动的非敌对性疾病或受伤伤亡数据，并强调该数据中死亡人数为零的情况并不合理。
Last week, The Intercept pointed the Pentagon to the non-hostile illness or injury casualty count for Epic Fury on the website, and emphasized its tally showing zero deaths was not possible.
五角大楼发言人帕特里夏·克劳茨贝格周二表示：“我会内部核查。请允许我联系上级部门。”三天后，在周五多次跟进消息之后，该数据被更新为1。
“I will check within,” Patricia Kreuzberger, a Pentagon spokesperson said on Tuesday. “Let me reach out to leadership.”Three days later, and after repeated follow-up messages on Friday, the tally was updated, to 1.
此外，据一位要求匿名的美国官员透露，除了达维乌斯之外，DCAS的死亡数据现在还包括一名上月去世的、身份不明的海军自杀人员。尽管网站最近新增了“自杀”类别，但DCAS目前仍将这一死亡案例标注为“待确认”。
In addition to Davius, the DCAS death count now also includes an unidentified Navy suicide that occurred last month, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. DCAS currently lists this death as “pending,” despite the recent addition of a “self-inflicted” category to the website.
一名“战争部官员”周日通过电子邮件告诉《拦截》杂志：“该部门正在引入一个‘待裁决’类别，用于追踪现役人员伤亡在最终分类和通过DCAS系统报告前的状态。”她补充说：“这一新类别将帮助战争部最大限度地减少报告延迟，同时确保战争部与联合参谋部之间的数据一致性。”然而，“待处理”这一标注并非新鲜事。五角大楼于7月中旬重新将其引入DCAS系统，此后统计数据中的重大差异便持续存在。
A “War Department official” told The Intercept by email on Sunday that “the Department is introducing a ‘Pending Adjudication’ category to track the status of active duty casualties pending final categorization and reporting in DCAS.”She added: “This new category will allow the Department to minimize reporting delays while ensuring data consistency between the DoW and Joint Staff.”The “pending” designation, however, isn’t new. The Pentagon re-introduced it to DCAS in mid-July, and major discrepancies have continued in the tally since.
DCAS系统中仍有大量伤亡人员未被计入，其中包括一名水手。3月25日，他在“亚伯拉罕·林肯”号航母上遭受了非战斗相关伤害，当时该舰正参与“支持‘史诗怒火行动’的打击任务”。
Many casualties remain uncounted in DCAS, including a sailor who suffered a non-combat-related injury aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as it was involved in “strike missions in support of Operation Epic Fury” on March 25.
官方统计中，大多数与伊朗战争的伤亡——截至周五共有454名人员——发生在7月7日之后，即特朗普政府宣称冲突结束之后。当时，五角大楼停止将伤亡归入“史诗怒火行动”，转而使用毫无新意的“海外行动”这一名称。最近的伤亡包括本月三名在战斗中受伤的陆军人员。目前已知最新的伊朗战争阵亡者是来自弗吉尼亚州诺福克的37岁比安卡·威尔克森上尉。
Most Iran war casualties in the official count — 454 personnel as of Friday — have occurred since July 7, after the Trump administration claimed the conflict ended. At that time, the Pentagon switched from counting casualties under Epic Fury to the anodyne moniker “Overseas Operations.”The most recent casualties are three Army personnel wounded in action this month. The latest known Iran war fatality is Capt. Bianca Wilkerson, 37, of Norfolk, Virginia, who died on September 18 from a “coronary issue,” according to her brother.
据她的兄弟称，她于9月18日因“冠状动脉问题”去世。《弗吉尼亚飞行员报》报道称，她于9月10日从沙特阿拉伯返回，并准备再次出发，但在返程航班上不幸去世。一名美国官员告诉《拦截》杂志，威尔克森的死“源于一起非战斗相关事件”，但近一个月过去，DCAS系统中仍未记录任何因非敌对性疾病或伤害导致的死亡案例。
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. A U.S. official told The Intercept that Wilkerson died “as a result of a non-combat-related incident,” but after nearly a month, DCAS still lists no non-hostile illness or injury deaths.
“犯下如此严重的错误没有任何借口，”众议员克里斯蒂·霍兰（民主党-宾夕法尼亚州）和亚当·史密斯（民主党-华盛顿州）在周五发表的一份联合声明中表示，此前众议院武装服务委员会发现“五角大楼在报告伤亡人数时存在差异”，并将此事“提请特朗普政府注意”。他们继续表示：“国防部长赫格塞斯未能立即承担问题的责任，这也对为国家效忠、置身险境的男女官兵造成了严重的不公平。”
“There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude,” Reps. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Adam Smith, D-Wash., said in a joint statement on Friday after the House Armed Services Committee discovered “a discrepancy in the Pentagon’s reporting of casualty numbers” and brought it to “the Trump Administration’s attention.”They continued: “The failure of Secretary Hegseth to immediately take ownership of the problem also does a grave disservice to the men and women putting their lives on the line in service to our country.”
自六个月前以来，《拦截者》一直在报道DCAS提供的官方统计数据中的异常情况。当特朗普政府与伊朗在4月7日达成首次停火时，美国伤亡人数统计为385人。尽管敌对行动暂停，但根据五角大楼的统计，该人数缓慢上升至428人。但4月21日，负伤作战人员人数下降了15人，国防部未作公开说明。尽管连续数月受到质询，五角大楼尚未对此调整作出解释。
For six months, The Intercept has reported on anomalies in official counts offered on DCAS. When the first ceasefire was struck between the Trump administration and Iran on April 7, the tally of U.S. casualties was 385. Despite a pause in hostilities, the number slowly rose to 428, according to Pentagon statistics. But on April 21, 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 explained the adjustment.
其他差异也已持续数月未获合理解释。一起陆军“疾病/伤害”死亡病例在5月26日左右出现，但到6月1日已消失。7月20日，五角大楼多次修改DCAS，未作解释地将战争伤亡总数增加了100人；DCAS当天引用的伤亡总数包括413、427和447三种数据。三天后，五角大楼将伊朗战争死亡人数从18人下调至14人。7月22日，DCAS将10起近期伤亡人员加入“狂怒行动”统计。到7月25日，这些伤亡人员再次从统计中被剔除。他们可能被计入了海外行动伤亡总数，但五角大楼未能提供任何解释。
Other discrepancies have also gone unjustified for months. An Army “illness/injury” death appeared on or about May 26 but disappeared by June 1. On July 20, the Pentagon repeatedly altered DCAS, adding 100 casualties to the war’s tally without explanation; the total number of wounded cited by DCAS on that date included counts of 413, 427, and 447. Three days later, the Pentagon dropped the Iran war death toll from 18 to 14. On July 22, DCAS added 10 recent casualties to the Epic Fury count. By July 25, those wounded personnel were dropped from the tally. They may have been added to the Overseas Operations casualty toll, but the Pentagon has failed to offer any explanations.
《拦截者》此前的报道也发现，五角大楼官方统计的死伤人数严重偏低，原因是一名美国政府官员在四月曾称之为“伤亡掩盖”。上个月，《华盛顿邮报》也曾暗示五角大楼压制了伤亡数据，自称的战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯称该报告“令人作呕且虚假”。
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, in April, a “casualty cover-up.”When the Washington Post also suggested last month that the Pentagon had suppressed the casualty numbers, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth called the report “DISGUSTING and FAKE.”
当《拦截者》询问克鲁兹伯格五角大楼持续散布虚假统计时，他未作解释。一封来自匿名“战争部官员”的邮件称：“我们除了国防伤亡分析系统网站之外，没有其他可提供的信息。”
When asked by The Intercept about the Pentagon’s continued peddling of bogus statistics, Kreuzberger did not offer an explanation. An email from a nameless “War Department official” said: “We have nothing to provide beyond the Defense Casualty Analysis System website.”