A Toxic Waste Dump
When you take into consideration CIA's report entitled Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction dated Oct 2002 and the Army's report entitled Chemical and Biological Defense U.S. Forces Are Not Adequately Equipped to Detect All Threats dated January 1993, used in conjunction with a phenomenom only found in the Middle East and that is atmospheric ducting it all comes together.
Fox vehicles alarming constantly, senior echelon announcing they were false alarms. Then recognize the DOD was quick to provide field changes to increase their capability. Pvt Fisher coming into contact with Mustard Gas and CDR Dunn processing the sample in Iraq getting a positive reading, but briefing Congress stating the findings were insufficient. I can't help but refer back to the UNSCOM inventories in Iraq of weapons storage facilities, and the coverups provided by Saddam. We knew Iraq used CW against Iran and the Kurds in 1988, I was in the Persian Gulf then. Coalition Forces bombed the ammunition facilities during DS, forcing chemicals into the atmosphere. Anywhere there was a hole in the atmosphere the chemicals would have dumped out onto unexpected troops. Read any Navy Lessons Learned message in the COMIDEASTFOR AOR and you will find this to be a fact, with regards to the ducting system in the atmosphere. I could take a line of sight circuit that normally operates at 30 miles line of sight, and talk 450 miles two or three times per month if the conditions were right.
I've since had veterans sitting across my desk, as a CVSO, and have listen to numerous cases where they were under scud attack and afterwards experienced typical symptoms of CW release. As an Enlisted Surface Warfare qualified sailor, the prerequisite of which was Chemical, Biological, Radiation (CBR) Training, my initial reaction in DS is they were experiencing attacks from nerve agents.
Dr. Robert Haley brought that revelation to light. But you hear very little these days. Most veterans in my county want nothing to do with the VA after receiving their denial letters in the claim process. Not sure if 20 years later, this is really going to convince them to even consider participating. They need more than promises and health care they end up paying for.
We have had a little success with GWS claims, and for that we're grateful, but for those that were denied, they still have the chronic conditions today, just a medical doctor put a diagnosis to them and they're paying to be treated, outside the VAMC - they were initially told by the VAMC it was a reaction because of nerves. That is a stigma that will follow the VAMC and VA from here until their demise.
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janet commented
Eve, Doc at Denver VA asked me if I had multiple chemical sensitivity, I said no, but then the dummy ID fellow couldn't read a genetic DNA test, either.
in the medical "world", it doesn't really exist , except in "your " mind, kind of like code for kookie. If you only knew all the chemicals in the food supply, pesticides and water, most antibiotics are given to farm animals. acinetobactor bacteria is in the soil, but so what, some docs can't spell, either.
I did "skud" duty one night, the droplets on the windshield "were rocket fuel".
Clear night, no rain/humidity/no water on the ground. Cement City did not have chemical detectors, they were 5 mi away, our unit wasn't going to wait for the all clear from them. Those WWII sirens, like being in an old movie. I know that field washing machine could scare anyone. I've never seen anything like that before.got a medal for doing laundry,lol. if you want to see treatment for chem poisoning, go to cdc.gov and type in nerve agent. you cannot "detox" as easily as you make it seem, the real tx for nerve agent is round the clock atropine and anticonvulsants, not the "injectors" they gave us to make it easier to die from a real exposure. or those 1x1 pads to "decontaminate" ourselves. I use a bigger cloth to take makeup off . -
Eve hennessa commented
I got sick from chemical poisoning and no medical doctor would help me. I got well bu by googling and reading and making lots of efforts to detox the chemicals.
Checkout my website Multiplechemicalsensitivitymcs.com to get info on healing and also I am on twitter and Facebook. I support all of the effort to get medical help for GWI, but I think it will take a while. MCS is not recognized by the AMA although plenty of people have it. -
janet commented
get the book Element Toxicology, Barnes and Noble, online $20.
see depleted urainium, etc.
the soil in Iraq has actinobacter in it too.
Have Pulm func tests done, eGFR-renal, IgG and subclasses, calcium, heavy metal testing and skin biopsy testing, esp if you've had an MRI w contrast, they inject metal into you for the magnetic scan, it's called Gadolinium, poison, accumulates, dechelates, destroys renal function, muscle function, weakness, fatigue, nausea/vomiting, balance problems, and vision so painful even in daylight, blinding. Do NOT ever get injections for CT's or MRI's, they are not needed. CT uses radioactive iodine, poisonous to kidneys and radiation energy, MRI uses gamma /radiofrequency electrified coils, but the gadolinium is needed to highlight certain areas of inflammed tissue, but you don't need the gadolinium. Have plain scans always. Search MRIsideeffects.com or fda.gov-gadolinium they won't tell you it's metal. Search TC99, tracer, nuclear medicine. -
Bobby Ewing commented
All the proof that exist, and all the Soldiers with the same symptoms, and it is still not enough for the V.A. I can name numerous symptoms that I have, all consistent with GWS, and the Dr.s tell me it has nothing to do with GWS. In fact, most Dr.s at the Amarillo VA act as if the problem is none existent.
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dedicatedsoldier commented
On the mark, Ed! One can also factor in dusty agents, residuals remaining on aircraft,eqipment,vehicles - it's not suprising to learn that even those in working in the supply chain stateside came down with symptomology paralleling the "front liner's" experience.