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Iran hit 274 buildings on 24 US bases in six months and aimed for the barracks where troops sleep, and the Pentagon still won't say what it costWhat the Wall Street Journal found in tens of thousands of satellite images:
-274 damaged structures at 24 installations across Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Iraq in the war's first six months
-119 buildings hit in the first two weeks alone, most of them in Kuwait; the Fifth Fleet's base in Bahrain was largely evacuated
-After the ceasefire collapsed in July, Iran shifted fire west to Jordan and hit buildings half the size of its earlier targets, matching housing units; the July 17 strike on Muwaffaq Salti killed 3 Americans and damaged 19 barracks
-Iranian media claims of strikes on troop housing doubled in that stretch; the Journal found damage to housing at three more bases the same week
-More than 20 US service members dead and 400-plus wounded before the Pentagon stopped publishing war-specific casualty figures in July
-Base damage priced at a minimum of $5 billion and possibly $15 billion, on top of the $47.1 billion war bill; CSIS puts rebuilding alone above $4 billion
-Hegseth declared Iran's missile program "functionally defeated" on March 13 and Trump said its missiles were "just about used up" on April 1; Iran kept hitting bases for five more months
-Sen. Murphy was barred from visiting Al Udeid, where at least a dozen buildings show damage, and says the Pentagon is "withholding information" to hide the war's cost
Hegseth's story and the satellite record don't match, and the gap is the problem for next week.
The Pentagon moved troops off bases and is now talking about pulling back from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia entirely, which is what you do when you expect the next round to hit harder, and officials admit Iran has saved its best missiles.
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