The Army will award the Purple Heart to 39 soldiers injured in a January 2020 Iranian attack in Iraq at a U.S. military base.

The announcement came after a CBS News investigation last month into why the soldiers hadn’t been recognized with the award and were denied its medical benefits, despite appearing to qualify. The update was reported on Wednesday.

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“The Army’s Human Resources command approved 39 Purple Heart submissions it recently received for soldiers wounded in the January missile attack on Al Asad Air Base,” Lt. Col. Gabriel Ramirez, an Army spokesman, confirmed to the Washington Examiner a day later.

They are also reviewing “an additional 11 nominations, which will be decided on the individual merits,” Ramirez noted.

Retired Capt. Geoffrey Hansen, who led many of the soldiers the night Al Asad was attacked, told CBS News the news of the Purple Heart awards is “definitely a sense of relief and a sense of recognition.”

The Army has now recognized 68 soldiers injured in the attack with Purple Hearts, which includes lifetime benefits at Veterans Affairs hospitals, home loan benefits, and preferences for federal hiring.

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More than 110 U.S. troops were diagnosed with brain injuries, but no deaths reported, following the ballistic missile attack. The attack was in response to the U.S. strike that killed Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani days earlier.