US Army practises digging mass graves for the first time since the Korean War as Trump weighs resuming Iran attacks

Soldiers dig and refill trenches at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in training conducted amid reports that military chaplains were advised burial sites should be pre-blessed in advance because combat might leave no time…

Operation Dragon Covenant Phase II, conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, marks the largest US Army mass-burial exercise since the Korean War, a conflict that claimed nearly 37,000 American lives. Running day and night, a single engineering company fielding eight bulldozers and four military excavators demonstrated the capacity to bury up to 2,400 bodies every 24 hours. The exercise comes as Admiral Brad Cooper, America's top Middle East commander, has reportedly presented Trump with options to resume strikes on Iran, with Gulf states said to have been told the administration is moving toward a 'short, intense military campaign' after the midterm elections.

Sgt 1st Class Delbert Ruede warned: 'If we went to war tomorrow, we would be making this up as we went along.'

Reports put the number of US military deaths in the Iran conflict at least 22 — four higher than the figure in the Pentagon's public database.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed that death-toll report as a 'complete lie.'

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