BREAKING: Troops leaked photos of their wrecked bases to CBS, saying they're "standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face"
Active service members sent the images anonymously.
One soldier's words: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed."
What the photos reportedly show:
-Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia: an E-3 Sentry with its tail severed from a charred fuselage
-Prince Sultan Air Base: hollowed-out buildings and barracks standing beside untouched concrete T-walls, fortifications built for mortars and grenades in a war fought from 300 miles up
-Camp Buehring, Kuwait: rows of trailers destroyed at the main staging area for Army ground troops and armor
-Camp Buehring: vehicles burned out in the open
-Camp Arifjan, Kuwait: structural damage to a building at the largest American logistics hub in the region
-The IG counted nearly 60 aircraft lost and $3.7 billion in equipment across eight countries.
Hegseth called the missiles that killed six at Shuaiba "squirters," a word for the odd one that slips past a working defense. These photos say the defense isn't working, and the people inside the wire know it.
Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel
