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How Strong Is Iran’s Army?
Iran’s army, while large in personnel with approximately 960,000 active and reserve troops, is a mix of strengths and critical weaknesses. -Its conventional forces are technologically inferior, ...
The Army has approved 39 Purple Hearts for soldiers injured in January 2020 when Iran attacked Al Asad Airbase in Iraq with 16 ballistic missiles, according to an email obtained by Army Times.
"The Army’s Human Resources command approved 39 Purple Heart submissions it recently received for Soldiers wounded in the January missile attack on Al Assad airbase," said Army spokesman Lt. Col ...
Iran is ramping up threats of revenge for the January 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, while the U.S. is warning of swift and devastating retaliation to any attack.
Soldiers hurt in Iran's revenge attack on their Iraq base in 2020, which the Trump administration minimized, were told not to file for a Purple Heart.
The army will be awarding Purple Hearts to 39 soldiers who were injured in January of 2020 when Iran struck their airbase in Iraq. This decision came after a CBS News investigation published last ...
The Army will award the Purple Heart to dozens of additional soldiers injured when Iran struck their airbase in Iraq with ballistic missiles in January 2020. The shift comes after a CBS News ...
Nearly 800 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division returned home to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Thursday as the division readies them to deploy once more for a spring training exercise in ...
That April drop will likely affect Iran’s military readiness, said Mark R. Quantock, a retired Army major general who is Babel Street’s executive vice president for strategic accounts.
The announcement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps could not immediately be confirmed. The U.S. says such launches advance Iran’s missile program.