Another US soldier died this month, according to newly released Pentagon statistics, which classified the death as “non-hostile.”

A female soldier was aboard a military flight headed to Saudi Arabia when she suffered an undisclosed “medical incident,” a defense official told The Intercept.

The same official said another 66 US personnel were wounded in action this month, bringing the official number of casualties from the aggression on Iran to more than 850.

Almost half of the official total — 419 wounded or dead personnel — have been recorded since Iran intensified its defensive measures in early July.

However, reporting by The Intercept over nearly six months has identified substantial discrepancies in the Pentagon’s figures, including casualties that were allegedly omitted from the official count.

Since the beginning of the Trump administration’s aggression on Iran, the War Department has published its official military casualty figures through the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, which tracks “deceased, wounded, ill or injured” service members for Congress and the White House.

The casualties were initially recorded under the so-called Operation Epic Fury.

Since July 7, they have instead been listed separately under a generic webpage titled “Overseas Operations.”

Previous reporting by The Intercept found that DCAS was missing hundreds of wounded or dead personnel from the aggression on Iran.

For example, the Pentagon’s official list of the dead does not include Maj. Sorffly Davius, a signals and communication officer with the New York Army National Guard who was assigned to the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division and reportedly died while on duty at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on March 6.

Davius’s death was publicly acknowledged despite its exclusion from the official casualty count.

Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, recognized Davius while “honoring our fallen.”

Three US contractors based in the region have also died during the conflict, according to a US official who spoke with the Washington Post.

Meanwhile, discrepancies in the DCAS figures have continued to emerge.

On April 21, for example, the number of wounded-in-action troops fell by 15 without any public explanation from the War Department.

Despite repeated questions over several months, the Pentagon has not commented on the discrepancies in its casualty figures.

A US government official previously told The Intercept that the addition of dozens of casualties to DCAS last month was “an accounting trick” intended to reduce the impact of the casualty figures.

The official accused the Pentagon of “slow-walking” the totals for weeks.

“They wanted the heat on them to slow down after the really devastating attacks,” the source told The Intercept, referring to attacks on US bases in July that exposed the vulnerability of US forces to Iranian attacks.

Official statistics now show that the Pentagon acknowledges 352 personnel were wounded or killed in July, while reporting no deaths or injuries in August.

DCAS currently lists 11 hostile deaths in 2026, all attributed to the aggression on Iran.

It is the highest annual number of US military personnel killed in action since 2021.

Including non-hostile deaths, DCAS records 19 US military deaths related to the aggression on Iran, but does not include Davius.

Sgt. Devin Seibel is also absent from the count despite dying in Irbil, Iraq, on May 31 in a training accident, according to a military press release.

More broadly, Pentagon statistics show that more than 580 US military personnel have died worldwide this year.

The War Department classifies 114 of those deaths as accidental and 14 as homicides, while eight deaths remained listed as “undetermined” as of Sept. 21.

The female soldier who died this month has not been identified, although DCAS information indicates that she was older than 35.

Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez did not respond to repeated requests for comment or clarification.

The discrepancies have raised further questions over the transparency and reliability of the US government’s public accounting of casualties sustained during its aggression on Iran.