Since this war is illegal anyway, IMO, each military death should carry a murder charge, that ultimately leads to arrest, conviction, and criminal prosecution of all those enabling it. ALL OF THEM!
As such...I have channeled it into a focus on demanding accountability... through the Constitution and the law.
If officials violated the law...they should be investigated...AND...where the evidence supports it...PROSECUTED. The first step...is making sure the facts are fully EXPOSED ...and nobody gets to hide their candy-ass behind creative bookkeeping. No, no, no.
So much winning 🤬❗ Terrific article tonight ✨ Jack. This story was a slap in the face for our servicemen and their families, Disgusting. Thank you and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
I almost don’t have words for this. It is so dishonorable and sketchy. I don’t trust a thing this regime does or says.
Years ago I was in weekend seminar. It was ostensibly about money but it wasn’t (it was the vehicle to get to your ‘stuff’ quickly) and the leader’s catchphrase was ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’….. hence my distrust of all they do. This bunch cannot even give the dead, wounded and their families the dignity of acknowledgment of the sacrifice let alone admit their lives matter and mattered. It is sickening and disheartening.
The whole regime needs to go…. to Mars, the next solar system… anywhere… just get gone.
Thank you for this article Jack, even as upsetting as it is.
With all the support you give us, I’m more than happy to support you, Jack.
I don’t have immediate fam that are veterans but there are/were cousins, uncles, great uncles and grandparents that served. This regime’s disrespect leaves me pretty speechless.
That’s a good start….. if they do this to the dead and wounded just what are they pulling in the dark and fog that we’ll only find out about much later…..?
File the date: July 7, 2026. Note what happened on it. Not a ceasefire. Not a battlefield shift. A category was created. “Overseas Operations,” sitting beside “Operation Epic Fury” on the Pentagon’s own ledger, splitting one continuous campaign into two accounting periods for the first time that military reporters covering this war can recall.
Jack is correct that the arithmetic is the tell. Regimes that want to hide a number rarely delete it outright — deletion draws questions. They reclassify it instead, scatter it across headings, and wait for the public to stop adding. Four dead and 207 wounded on one page. Fourteen dead and 417 wounded on another. Eighteen and 624 combined, same as before the split — but only for the reader who does the math the Pentagon is betting most won’t do.
Note which date the new category begins: July 7, the day the administration itself says Operation Epic Fury ended. Note what that date also restarts: the sixty-day clock under the War Powers Resolution, without a new congressional vote, without the debate that would normally accompany continued combat operations. A soldier wounded on July 8 is, on paper, wounded in a different war than a soldier wounded on July 6. The missiles did not notice the distinction. The families did not notice the distinction. The spreadsheet did.
This is a pattern with a long history: governments that want a war to continue past its legal shelf life do not usually announce the extension. They rename it. The renaming lets officials tell two audiences two different things at once — Congress hears an ending, the battlefield hears a continuation — and the discrepancy survives exactly as long as nobody reconciles the two ledgers.
Jack is correct, too, about the spokesman’s word choice. Offered a chance to explain nearly five hundred wounded, the Pentagon volunteered “sprained ankles” as the illustrative example. Note what that word was doing: not informing, but shrinking. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan came home on July 22 under a flag. No spreadsheet reclassification changes what that family is carrying.
The historical pattern doesn’t require conspiracy, only incentive. A category renamed on a lawyer’s advice is not the same crime as an order to falsify a battlefield report. But the effect on public knowledge is the same: harder arithmetic, softer headlines, a public that stops counting before it reaches the total. What happens next depends on whether anyone in Congress or in the press insists on the single number Jack is asking for.
Jane..."The missiles did not notice the distinction. The spreadsheet did." That's the piece in TWO lines. Beautiful. I love it.
Your point...about the two audiences... is the one that I think will linger in everyone's mind; the gap holds...only until someone RECONCILES the ledgers.
Thanks for reading this closely...and...for the support!
books were cooked during t's 1st term in office. as the number of deaths due to Covid kept climbing to staggering numbers, deaths due to Covid were being recorded as X or Y or Z causes NOT as Covid.
Everybody should be aware of these tricks being used to promote lies, lies that affect lives and families. How could anyone ever support anyone who would do or be a part of such falsehoods, or any falsehood, yet particularly these with their devastating results? To choose someone known to behave in such a way speaks volumes regarding the chooser or voter.
I was fairly certain the death count and the wounded were not accurate based on the number of bases hit and the first strike when they were not even warned about what was going to happen let alone no cover for the roof. You just had to know what was going to happen to with the liars club in charge. My concern is that there are serious in juries for some of these and the coding will not allow VA benefits when the need them. I am sure some of these persons have injuries that will not let them return to service.I am so sad for the families. I also wonder if these fools will refuse to label these Gold Star Families for the ones whose loved ones were killed in this war that is not a war according to drumpf...Anger, disgusted and so ready for a regime change...I restock all your articles Jack. Thank you for this one.
My heart aches for the families. This is so f-ing disrespectful. Only a wannabe warrior (Hegseth) could come up with this crap. Time to contact my senators and rep again. Makes me so stinking mad. 99 days. #HoldingFast and #SpittingNails
It is angering and disgusting the lack of respect they show our troops. You can cook the books but the dead are still there. They speak of respecting our troops and then try to bury their sacrifice to fit their narrative. It is insane. I feel everyone's anger in the responses. To your point Jack it is about holding them to account for these actions.
And writers like yourself will preserve the actual count and it will be the archive. Because we have lived to observe the reality We will correct the historical records and we’ll keep pressing elected representatives to do so.
Thank you Jack for letting us know, I know this was difficult writing about this as it is to read. It’s sickening that our service men and their families are being treated like they don’t matter. It must change, legally, no real transparency, or accuracy of our soldiers deaths, wounded what’s happening to them, were they told to stay and fight or sent to Germany for medical. Remember Trump 1.0, 50 or 500 don’t recall exactly were wounded sent to Germany and all he said was they have headaches, were they brain injured?
Duty calls here’s an article that I’m livid about as well
Since this war is illegal anyway, IMO, each military death should carry a murder charge, that ultimately leads to arrest, conviction, and criminal prosecution of all those enabling it. ALL OF THEM!
TimE...I understand the anger. Believe me!
As such...I have channeled it into a focus on demanding accountability... through the Constitution and the law.
If officials violated the law...they should be investigated...AND...where the evidence supports it...PROSECUTED. The first step...is making sure the facts are fully EXPOSED ...and nobody gets to hide their candy-ass behind creative bookkeeping. No, no, no.
#HoldFast
-Jack
Agree
So much winning 🤬❗ Terrific article tonight ✨ Jack. This story was a slap in the face for our servicemen and their families, Disgusting. Thank you and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Thank you, Karen. It really was. It certainly rattled my teeth.
Thank you for the reStack!
-Jack
As a veteran this just pisses me off into low earth orbit...the dishonesty of this clownshow administration is obscene!
Agreed, James. I'm pretty confident I could have bitten steel bars in half while I was working on this. (Glad I didn't try. I need my teeth)
-Jack
I almost don’t have words for this. It is so dishonorable and sketchy. I don’t trust a thing this regime does or says.
Years ago I was in weekend seminar. It was ostensibly about money but it wasn’t (it was the vehicle to get to your ‘stuff’ quickly) and the leader’s catchphrase was ‘how you do anything is how you do everything’….. hence my distrust of all they do. This bunch cannot even give the dead, wounded and their families the dignity of acknowledgment of the sacrifice let alone admit their lives matter and mattered. It is sickening and disheartening.
The whole regime needs to go…. to Mars, the next solar system… anywhere… just get gone.
Thank you for this article Jack, even as upsetting as it is.
Deb..."How you do anything is how you do everything" ...that's a keeper...and...it explains why NONE of this reads as an "isolated" lapse.
The refusal to acknowledge the dead and wounded...should be the EASIEST thing to get right.
I'm steamed on this one. Donald Trump...Pete Hegseth...They. Do. Not. Give. A Shit. About. Our. Troops.
Thank you for reading and for the support, Deb.
-Jack
With all the support you give us, I’m more than happy to support you, Jack.
I don’t have immediate fam that are veterans but there are/were cousins, uncles, great uncles and grandparents that served. This regime’s disrespect leaves me pretty speechless.
Thank you for all you do.
Prison and not just a cushy one like Maxwell is in. The one she left...
Teri...right?!
Yes...and that's another story we can never let fade into the Trump abyss.
-Jack
That’s a good start….. if they do this to the dead and wounded just what are they pulling in the dark and fog that we’ll only find out about much later…..?
My thoughts exactly and my worst fear is classifying there status that would prevent VA benefits
Utter depravity if they do….. and, sorry to say, it would be sort of par for the course. My heart aches for the families.
Yes, ladies, this is some bullshit of the highest order!
Looks like someone spilled his whisky on the reports.
They do have his "signature" all over them, eh, Sue P?!
-Jack
File the date: July 7, 2026. Note what happened on it. Not a ceasefire. Not a battlefield shift. A category was created. “Overseas Operations,” sitting beside “Operation Epic Fury” on the Pentagon’s own ledger, splitting one continuous campaign into two accounting periods for the first time that military reporters covering this war can recall.
Jack is correct that the arithmetic is the tell. Regimes that want to hide a number rarely delete it outright — deletion draws questions. They reclassify it instead, scatter it across headings, and wait for the public to stop adding. Four dead and 207 wounded on one page. Fourteen dead and 417 wounded on another. Eighteen and 624 combined, same as before the split — but only for the reader who does the math the Pentagon is betting most won’t do.
Note which date the new category begins: July 7, the day the administration itself says Operation Epic Fury ended. Note what that date also restarts: the sixty-day clock under the War Powers Resolution, without a new congressional vote, without the debate that would normally accompany continued combat operations. A soldier wounded on July 8 is, on paper, wounded in a different war than a soldier wounded on July 6. The missiles did not notice the distinction. The families did not notice the distinction. The spreadsheet did.
This is a pattern with a long history: governments that want a war to continue past its legal shelf life do not usually announce the extension. They rename it. The renaming lets officials tell two audiences two different things at once — Congress hears an ending, the battlefield hears a continuation — and the discrepancy survives exactly as long as nobody reconciles the two ledgers.
Jack is correct, too, about the spokesman’s word choice. Offered a chance to explain nearly five hundred wounded, the Pentagon volunteered “sprained ankles” as the illustrative example. Note what that word was doing: not informing, but shrinking. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan came home on July 22 under a flag. No spreadsheet reclassification changes what that family is carrying.
The historical pattern doesn’t require conspiracy, only incentive. A category renamed on a lawyer’s advice is not the same crime as an order to falsify a battlefield report. But the effect on public knowledge is the same: harder arithmetic, softer headlines, a public that stops counting before it reaches the total. What happens next depends on whether anyone in Congress or in the press insists on the single number Jack is asking for.
Jane..."The missiles did not notice the distinction. The spreadsheet did." That's the piece in TWO lines. Beautiful. I love it.
Your point...about the two audiences... is the one that I think will linger in everyone's mind; the gap holds...only until someone RECONCILES the ledgers.
Thanks for reading this closely...and...for the support!
-Jack
books were cooked during t's 1st term in office. as the number of deaths due to Covid kept climbing to staggering numbers, deaths due to Covid were being recorded as X or Y or Z causes NOT as Covid.
Thank you for getting this out, Jack. I know it wasn’t an easy article to write. I hadn’t even realized I was crying until I was finished.
I guess we shouldn’t have expected them to do the honorable thing. They never do and they never will.
#Holdfast
~Susan
Everybody should be aware of these tricks being used to promote lies, lies that affect lives and families. How could anyone ever support anyone who would do or be a part of such falsehoods, or any falsehood, yet particularly these with their devastating results? To choose someone known to behave in such a way speaks volumes regarding the chooser or voter.
# HoldFast!
I was fairly certain the death count and the wounded were not accurate based on the number of bases hit and the first strike when they were not even warned about what was going to happen let alone no cover for the roof. You just had to know what was going to happen to with the liars club in charge. My concern is that there are serious in juries for some of these and the coding will not allow VA benefits when the need them. I am sure some of these persons have injuries that will not let them return to service.I am so sad for the families. I also wonder if these fools will refuse to label these Gold Star Families for the ones whose loved ones were killed in this war that is not a war according to drumpf...Anger, disgusted and so ready for a regime change...I restock all your articles Jack. Thank you for this one.
#HOLDFAST
Teri.
My heart aches for the families. This is so f-ing disrespectful. Only a wannabe warrior (Hegseth) could come up with this crap. Time to contact my senators and rep again. Makes me so stinking mad. 99 days. #HoldingFast and #SpittingNails
It is angering and disgusting the lack of respect they show our troops. You can cook the books but the dead are still there. They speak of respecting our troops and then try to bury their sacrifice to fit their narrative. It is insane. I feel everyone's anger in the responses. To your point Jack it is about holding them to account for these actions.
And writers like yourself will preserve the actual count and it will be the archive. Because we have lived to observe the reality We will correct the historical records and we’ll keep pressing elected representatives to do so.
Thank you Jack for letting us know, I know this was difficult writing about this as it is to read. It’s sickening that our service men and their families are being treated like they don’t matter. It must change, legally, no real transparency, or accuracy of our soldiers deaths, wounded what’s happening to them, were they told to stay and fight or sent to Germany for medical. Remember Trump 1.0, 50 or 500 don’t recall exactly were wounded sent to Germany and all he said was they have headaches, were they brain injured?
Duty calls here’s an article that I’m livid about as well
https://apple.news/Ax4QzhWlzSNOv1k1_FOyjFg