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\n The Pentagon\u2019s website that tracks war casualties remains incorrect nearly a day after the totals for US service member deaths and injuries in the war with Iran were reduced in what Defense Department officials called a \u201cdata disruption.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Democratic members of the Senate sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth late Thursday demanding answers as to why the website was having issues and asked for a full accounting of war casualties.\n <\/p>\n

\n Four deaths and dozens of injuries disappeared from the totals on Thursday after the\u202fDefense Casualty Analysis System\u202fwebsite had correctly listed the total number of US troops killed in the war at 18 earlier in the week. Four soldiers died \u2013 three in Jordan and one in Iraq \u2013 as part of operations over the weekend.\n <\/p>\n

\n President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer of the remains of those four service members on Wednesday at Dover Air Base in Delaware. The president confirmed the 18 total deaths during a Thursday press appearance but downplayed their significance.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOne is too many, but it\u2019s 18, whereas in Vietnam, we lost 200,000,\u201d he said. The Pentagon\u2019s official tally for total deaths in Vietnam is 58,220.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 14 that were still listed on the DCAS website as of Friday appeared to include a sailor who died in early July after the helicopter he was in crashed in the Arabian Sea.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pentagon officials blamed technical issues and denied there was an intentional effort to mask the war\u2019s toll after media reports emerged on the sudden drop.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Department of War is aware of temporary data disruptions on the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) website,\u201d chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell\u202fsaid in a post on X. \u201cThese site anomalies are currently being resolved in coordination with the Military Services.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN asked the Pentagon on Friday why the numbers had not been corrected, and whether the Defense Department would be able to fix the underlying issue so that the numbers would be accurate in the future. The Pentagon did not reply by the time of publication.\n <\/p>\n

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\n CNN, which tracks the DCAS website, had seen repeated glitches this week with totals fluctuating.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Defense Department has been\u202fslow to disclose injuries\u202fduring the war, with officials pointing to security needs. On Monday, Parnell had acknowledged that \u201cnearly 100 service members\u201d had been injured in the war since July 7, at a time when dozens of those injuries did not appear in the DCAS totals.\n <\/p>\n

\n The twelve Democratic Senators who serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee\u202f\u202fThursday asking Hegseth for answers as to what was causing inaccuracies in the DCAS system, and demanding a full accounting of casualties.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe American people, Congress, service members, and their families are entitled to a full and accurate accounting of the human costs of war,\u201d the letter said. \u201cThe information currently available to the public suggests that the Department has not consistently provided timely and comprehensive public casualty reporting throughout the conflict.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Even when seemingly functioning properly, the DCAS data appears to show a significant delay in updates. A Pentagon official previously said that \u201cit can take several days or even weeks for an injury to be documented in military systems\u201d due to medical evaluation and review requirements. The official, however, told CNN that the DCAS database is \u201cregularly updated.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Hegseth has previously been critical of media coverage about service member deaths, saying at a March news conference that, \u201cWhen a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it\u2019s front-page news.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI get it,\u201d he added. \u201cThe press only wants to make the president look bad.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Hegseth\u202fdid not mention service member deaths\u202fto open his testimony on Tuesday, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine mentioned the four who had died over the weekend as he sat next to Hegesth, a pattern consistent with their periodic joint press conferences during the early days of the war.\n <\/p>\n

\nDavis Winkie\u2019s work at CNN is supported by a partnership between\u202f<\/em>Outrider Foundation<\/em>\u202fand Journalism Funding Partners (JFP). CNN retains full editorial control of the reporting.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

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