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Military Resistance: thomasfbarton@ 1.7.17 Print it out: color best. Pass it on. Military Resistance 15A3 More U.S. Troops Are Being Wounded In Iraq And Syria: “At Least 14 American Military Personnel Have Been Wounded In Combat Since The Start Of October” “The Pentagon And The White House Made Painstaking Efforts To Minimize Any Perception That American Forces Are Actively Engaged In Ground Combat” January 5, 2017 By: Andrew deGrandpre, Military Times At least 14 American military personnel have been wounded in combat since the start of October while battling Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, according to Defense Department data reviewed by Military Times. The sudden increase accounts for nearly half of the 30 wounded-in-action reports that the U.S. has publicly acknowledged since the ISIS campaign began in August 2014, and coincides with two ongoing offensives targeting the terror group’s strongholds in both countries: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria, the Islamic State’s self-declared capital. Although comparatively small when measured against monthly casualty reports from the height of America’s full-scale conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the numbers suggest that more U.S. troops are being sent closer to the Islamic State’s front lines to direct or help local forces who are in the lead. It’s a sensitive topic for the Pentagon and the White House, which has made painstaking efforts to minimize any perception that American forces are actively engaged in ground combat despite steadily increasing force levels in both theaters where now more than 5,500 U.S. troops are deployed. At least eight American troops have been killed in action since the start of Operation Inherent Resolve, according to figures maintained in the Defense Casualty Analysis System, a comprehensive database charting American combat casualty information dating to the Revolutionary War. The most recent occurred Nov. 24 in a Syrian village located north of Raqqa. Anot