Amid Iran conflict, ‘non-hostile’ deaths of 2 US airmen raise overseas toll

Two unidentified U.S. airmen died last week in “non-hostile” incidents amid the war in Iran, raising the number of American fatalities since the war began to 23. The two airmen are listed under the “non-hostile” category in the Pentagon’s recently updated Defense Casualty Analysis System , or DCAS, meaning their deaths are not related to direct combat operations. One of the deaths was illness- or injury-related, and the other is listed as “pending,” according to the DCAS. One airman was an active-duty service member, an Air Force spokesperson told Military Times, while the other was in the…