Survivors of Iranian attack that killed 6 U.S. troops say generals ignored warnings [View all]
Source: Washington Post
July 12, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Seconds after an Iranian drone struck his unit’s operations center in Kuwait, an Army general responsible for the troops inside got up from the floor, grabbed his protective vest and helmet, and shouted an order to a soldier beside him: “Get out!”
It was March 1, barely a day into the U.S. war against Iran. The drone hit in the center of the building at Port Shuaiba, its concussive blast hurling troops into walls and igniting a deadly fire, survivors of the strike told The Washington Post. Brig. Gen. Clint Barnes ran for the emergency exit and to a nearby protective bunker, even as dozens of men and women under his command remained behind, said the soldier ordered to flee with him.
“We shouldn’t have run out of the f---ing building,” the soldier added, his voice trembling as he recounted how, once the bunker’s steel doors were reopened, he’d tried to head back to the building to help, but Barnes told him to stay put. “I can’t just, like, watch this happen,” he recalled thinking.
At the urging of another officer who was running toward the fire, the soldier said, he went back to the operations center and began calling out through the smoke hoping to find survivors. The general, the soldier said, did not.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/12/survivors-iranian-attack-that-killed-6-us-troops-say-generals-ignored-warnings/
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