WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- The U.S. Department of War quietly added 37 more wounded service members to its public casualty tally this week, pushing the official total of personnel injured since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began on Feb. 28 to 861, according to a review of the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS).
The update, first reported by The Washington Post, includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines. No explanation was offered by military officials, and U.S. Central Command declined to comment. 
No recent attacks on U.S. troops or specific incidents have been publicly reported that would account for the addition.
The quiet revision follows mounting scrutiny over the Pentagon’s accounting of casualties in a war that has grown increasingly unpopular with the American public. 
Earlier this month, The Washington Post, citing six Department of War insiders, reported that at least 22 U.S. military personnel had died across the region — four more than the 18 fatalities then listed in DCAS. A sixth official put the figure at 23.
Terrorist war secretary Pete Hegseth rejected the report as a “complete LIE,” writing on X that the Pentagon “never would and never could hide a combat death”. A war department official also disputed the discrepancy, saying the deaths are all recorded in the database.
The DCAS portal initially counted casualties under “Operation Epic Fury,” the official name for the terrorist war. In July, the Pentagon created a separate category titled “Overseas Operations” for casualties after a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran collapsed. 
Officials said the move was procedural because the war had ended. Three military officials told The New York Times that four deaths were removed from the Epic Fury tally because they occurred after the April ceasefire declaration.
The Intercept reported that DCAS is missing personnel from the Iran war, including Maj. Sorffly Davius, a New York Army National Guard officer who died in Kuwait in March and was publicly recognized by Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
Sgt. Devin Seibel, who died in a training accident in Irbil, Iraq, in May, is also absent. A U.S. official told The Intercept that scores of casualties added to DCAS last month amounted to an “accounting trick” to dampen the statistics.
Of the 861 wounded now listed, 418 were recorded under Operation Epic Fury and 443 under Overseas Operations since July 7. The Pentagon has not commented on the disparities despite repeated questions.