The Iran war is exposing dangerous gaps in the US military system built to save wounded troops

Military medical officials said that as US forces entered the war with Iran, they lacked the same level of medical support they saw during the Global War on Terror.US Central Command Public AffairsThe American doctors weren't in the room, or even in the country, when they were informed that the man's crushed limb could be saved.The US service member had been deployed aboard a ship in the Middle East, but an equipment accident in March had left him with severe injuries that exceeded the ship's me