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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's description of the event categorized the drone as a squirter or something that just managed to make it through U.S.

air defenses.

According to one of the soldiers who was wounded in the attack, quote, painting a picture that one squeaked through is a falsehood.

I want to stop here and point out that we recently talked about the safety briefings soldiers get on the weekends.

Stay out of the hospital, the newspaper, and jail is part of it.

Soldiers talking to the press isn't a common occurrence.

Talking to the press and saying that SecDef is misleading the American public is even more rare.

It's something that should be paid attention to.

The service member went on to say they wanted the public to know that the base, quote, was unprepared to provide any defense for itself.

It was not a fortified position.

We covered how the U.S.

was deploying Patriot and THAAD missile systems long before Trump started the war.

The administration was absolutely aware of the inevitable Iranian counterattack.

Leaving a nearby target undefended is a big deal, but it actually gets worse.

According to the reports, while DOD was moving some troops out of the area to mitigate risk, the group that was hit was ordered to leave their base to go to a small outpost that had not been updated to counter drones.

The buildings were just wood and tin with some reinforced concrete T-walls.

They look like concrete barriers on the interstate.

They're great for protection against mortars.

They don't do anything to protect from overhead drones.

A soldier told the press, quote,