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the attack. this attack took place last thursday. why did it take so many days for the pentagon to identify that a general officer was the service member injured in the attack? this is an issue of policy that s been around for some time. now, the military typically does not identify wounded service members. when service members are killed in action, they do identify after family notifications, but they don t when it comes to wounded service members. in this case, it s relatively rare for such a senior ranking officer to be wounded, so the information did come to light a few days later. the coalition initially just identifying the wounded american as a u.s. military service member, but again, now making positive identification that this senior commander was in fact wounded during this attack. just a reminder of how dangerous a place it remains 17 years after the u.s. invasion. ryan brown, thanks very much. in other news we re