When are soldiers killed in action "not" killed in action?

Three military officials told the Times that “one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list … because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April”.

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These guys are pathetic.

The original 90-day Congressional authorization had expired, so the Pentagon was trying to claim the war was over, which means the soldiers didn't die in combat.

The logic is easy if you just think like a criminal.

Pentagon quietly updates how it categorizes Iran war casualties​

The Pentagon has updated its public-facing casualty database after abruptly revising its Iran war casualty figures last week, when it reduced the number of U.S. troops listed as killed in Operation Epic Fury from 18 to 14 and removed dozens of wounded service members from that tally.

The Defense Department now appears to be tracking casualties in its Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) under a new category labeled Overseas Operations rather than Operation Epic Fury, the namesake previously used for the Iran campaign – in effect restarting its accounting of dead and wounded in the war.

It’s unclear how defense officials are defining “overseas operations” and whether that’s exclusively counting Iran war dead and wounded. The Pentagon did not return an ABC News request for comment.

When asked last week about the shift in the casualty numbers, Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez said the website was experiencing technical issues and made no mention of any recalculations of the dead and wounded, saying in a statement that, "site anomalies are currently being resolved in coordination with the military services."