五角大楼上修伊朗战争美军死亡数字：对伊行动21人、中东累计22人，民主党人斥计数方法一变再变
据NPR、《今日美国》等媒体报道，五角大楼10月9日（周五）晚间悄然更新官方伤亡数据库"国防伤亡分析系统"（DCAS），承认在对伊朗的军事行动中死亡的美军人数比此前公布的更多：对伊行动死亡数字上修至21人，另有865名军人受伤。
新计入的两起均为非战斗死亡：陆军国民警卫队少校索弗利·达维乌斯（46岁）于3月6日在科威特身亡；一名未具名的海军水兵于9月自杀。此外，26岁的陆军中士德文·塞贝尔今年5月在伊拉克一次训练事故中身亡，现被归入打击"伊斯兰国"的"固有决心行动"名下——计入此人后，自2月28日对伊行动开始以来，美军在中东地区的死亡总人数达到22人。
这次更正的背景是持续数月的口径之争。《华盛顿邮报》9月曾援引六名美国官员报道称，实际伤亡高于官方数据库数字，国防部长赫格塞斯当时斥该报道"完全是谎言"。众议院军事委员会首席民主党议员亚当·史密斯与克里西·胡拉汉发表联合声明称，对如此量级的错误"没有任何借口"，并直言需要国会介入才迫使五角大楼更正数字，对军方而言是"一种耻辱"。
Pentagon Raises Iran War Death Toll to 21 — 22 Across the Middle East — as Democrats Slam Shifting Counts
The Pentagon quietly updated its official casualty database, the Defense Casualty Analysis System, late on Friday (Oct. 9), raising the number of U.S. service members who died in operations against Iran to 21, with 865 wounded, NPR and USA Today reported.
The two newly counted deaths were noncombat. A third soldier, Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, who died in a training accident in Iraq in May, was newly listed under Operation Inherent Resolve — bringing total U.S. military deaths in the Middle East since the Iran operations began on Feb. 28 to 22.
Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said there was "no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude" and called it "an embarrassment" that Congress had to force the correction.
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