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    Why Gulf War Veterans are sick


    http://www.ngwrc.org/Facts/default.htm

    According to the Department of Defense, by 1999, the military revealed

    - As many as 100,000 U.S. troops were exposed to repeated low-levels of
    chemical warfare agents, including sarin, cyclosarin, and mustard gases;

    - More than 250,000 received the investigational new drug pyridostigmine
    bromide (PB pills) the Pentagon "cannot rule out" as linked to Gulf War
    illnesses;

    - 8,000 received the investigational new botulinum toxoid (Bot Tox) vaccine;

    - 150,000 received the hotly debated anthrax vaccine;

    - 436,000 entered into or lived for months within areas contaminated by more
    than 315 tons of depleted uranium radioactive toxic waste possibly laced
    with trace amounts of highly radioactive Plutonium and Neptunium, almost all
    without any awareness, training, protective equipment, or medical
    evaluations; and

    - Hundreds of thousands lived outdoors for months near more than 700 burning
    oil well fires belching fumes and particulate matter without any protective
    equipment.

    - Each of these exposures took place while troops were either engaged in
    combat, serving in a war zone, or stationed in the volatile region for a
    number of months.




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    GREAT PIECE OF INFO. THANKS FOR THE INSIGHT AND BACKGROUND. MAY COME IN HANDY LATER.

    SEMPER FI AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

    SGT JOHN WIEZOREK
    1987-1993


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