Jeff, I agree that there's a real problem and by far most of the symptoms and complaints are a direct result of service in the Gulf War. I still think that a lot of the problems started with the experimental shots they were given. Please tell me if I'm wrong about this--Did the shots have something included in them that was intended to protect them from sarin attacks? Wondering if perhaps it didn't work to protect them, but combined with the anthrax and other stuff in the shots, it just made things worse when they were exposed to the real thing. Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: ScismGenie@aol.com Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BSChat] Re: DoD Releases Two Reports on Khamisiyah Demolition Operations Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:11:05 EDT In a message dated 4/25/2002 11:00:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dlnews_sender@dtic.mil writes: > IMMEDIATE RELEASE > April 25, 2002 > (703)697-5737(public/industry) > > DOD RELEASES TWO REPORTS ON KHAMISIYAH DEMOLITION OPERATIONS > > The Department of Defense released today two reports > relating to the events at Khamisiyah during the Gulf War. The > first report is a final version of its case narrative "U.S. > Demolition Operations at Khamisiyah." The second, "Modeling and > Risk Characterization of U.S. Demolition Operations at the > Khamisiyah Pit," is a technical report detailing the modeling > and risk characterization of possible chemical warfare agent > exposure in the Gulf War. > > After publishing the first interim report in 1997, > investigators working for DoD's special assistant for Gulf War > Illnesses, Medical Readiness And Military Deployments > intensified their efforts to address unanswered questions and to > fully understand the effect of demolition operations on U.S. > servicemembers. In addition, investigators began detailed > computer modeling of events in the spring and summer of 1997 to > determine the size and path of the potential hazard area created > by demolition activities. The modeling resulted in the Defense > Department sending notification letters to approximately 99,000 > veterans in 1997. > > Further refinement of computer modeling of the > Khamisiyah Pit demolition was completed in January 2000. This > information combined with an updated CIA estimate of how much > chemical warfare agent was released, addition of deposition and > decay to the models and consideration of toxicity of both sarin > and cyclosarin in the models resulted in a second interim report > published in December 2000. The improved modeling allowed > investigators to redefine the potential hazard area, resulting > in slight changes to the estimated numbers - 101,000 vs. 99,000 > - of U.S. servicemembers possibly exposed to low-levels of nerve > agent by the Khamisiyah demolitions. More than 66,000 soldiers > were shown to be in the potential hazard area by both the 1997 > and 2000 modeling. In December 2000, the Defense Department > notified more than 140,000 servicemembers of their status based > on their unit location inside or outside of the 2000 potential > hazard area. Now what was that aboput "Gulf War Syndrome?" Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.) ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com