PANews reported on March 13 that U.S. Defense Secretary Hergses stated that since the start of the war, the U.S. and Israel have struck approximately 15,000 targets, and added that Iran's new Supreme Leader may be injured or disfigured. Hergses made these remarks at a joint press conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kaine, stating, "The United States is destroying the military power of the radical Iranian regime in ways never seen before." These comments came as a U.S. aerial refueling tanker crashed in Iraq, killing all four crew members.