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One word from a wounded American soldier cuts through every Pentagon press release, every official statement, and every carefully crafted narrative about the missile strike that killed six Americans in Kuwait unprepared. That is how the survivors describe their unit's defensive posture when the attack came. Not inadequately defended. Not partially protected. Unprepared. Secretary Hegseth described the strike as a squirter that managed to sneak through existing defenses. The soldiers who survived it say there were no meaningful defenses to sneak through blast barricades that provided no overhead cover, zero drone defense capability, and a position that one survivor described as offering the weakest possible bunker protection available.The gap between Hegseth's account and the survivors' testimony is not a matter of perspective or interpretation. It is a factual dispute about whether adequate protective measures were in place when six American service members were killed. Pentagon officials claimed every possible measure had been taken. The injured soldiers say the opposite with a specificity and clarity that official statements have not matched. They were moved closer to Iran. They were placed in a known target zone. They were given inadequate protection and no satisfactory explanation for why they were there. Six of their colleagues came home in flag-draped coffins. The survivors are demanding that the truth about how that happened be told honestly.