Chemical Warfare Soldiers (past & present)?
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My father manufactured the active ingredient in agent orange,(C-5,6), at Hooker Chemical's Montague Michigan plant for the duration of the Vietnam War. The process was so volatile and so toxic that it had to be manufactured on a seven story wall-less superstructure in the middle of a 160 acre field. All of the production was then loaded on railway tankcars for shippment to Dow Chemical of Midland Mi.for addition of solvents and packaging for shipment to the military. At the close of the war, the superstructure was dismantled, and it, and all associated equipment, tools etc. were buried in a huge clay lined disposal pit on the site. The site remains a Toxic hot spot to this day and all of the surrounding neighborhood has water piped into them as the groundwater is highly contaminated. From '82-'93 my father ran a chlorine plant's maintainence department on the persian gulf, about 25 kliks from Kuwait City in Saudi. In 1997 he fell ill with the small cell cancer that has become consistent, though unrecognized by our government, as due to exposure to AO or its components. I know this as I was a service officer for the Am Legion Post here in my  town, and have seen the wreckage that this stuff left in its wake. I am an Non Combatant, US Navy, Vietnam Era vet, ( Commonly refferred to as a "rear echelon puke" ), who salutes and thanks you for your service. Hope you are well, and look forward to your Photo posts as you are quite knowledgeable on the subject. God Bless, Jed
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Ok let me see..I could play the tapes they played to get Noriega...or hit you with some mustard or phosgene gas...hmmm well hitler was gassed a couple of times and although he had nerve gas he never used it...Gas has an added effect as it IS a psychlogical weapon. Even the threat of gas wears you out mentally. Ever been in MOPP 4 in the summer??Hmm Id take Tokyo Rose over Sarin anyday.
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Click on this link:http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?fr=ybr_sbc&p=world%20war%20one
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Not at this time.  In the past, several methods generally lumped under the name "The Draft" have been used to conscript service during times of war.
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There were no Chemical weapons to start with. The process to manufacture the weapons is very dirty and if they had a chemical weapons manufacturing capability, they would have found those long ago, even if the weapons were moved. You can't hide all of the toxic waste generated in the process.\n\nAdditionally, if Saddam had weapons, don't you think he had them for a reason. And what better reason than to defend yourself against an attack? Didn't you ever wonder why they weren't used when they were invaded?\n\nAdditionally, if the US truely believed Saddam had WMD, they would never had send troops in until intelligence identified where they were located and the threat was neutralized first. Otherwise it would be too great a risk to our soldiers. \n\nI always wonder, how is it that we knew exactly were they were before we invaded (remember all the pretty pictures Powell showed us) but now that we are there, we can't find them anymore?
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http://www.army.mod.uk/sportandadventure/clubs/tug_of_war/history.htm.\nTry this site.
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Not that I know of....try classmates.com or google their name.  Try to think of what they used to be involved in or what their interests were; perhaps they have remained...if so....start searching those topics for groups / web pages....ie Militay.com; Yahoo Groups
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Interesting question. Found this for you. Made interesting reading.\n\n\nhttp://www.militaryphs.org/pubs/apobook.html\n\n\nGood Luck!! For whatever you are looking for.
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The Imperial War Museum has a wealth of information about people who served in the war.\n\nIt may be a good place to start - http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.001008\nhttp://www.iwm.org.uk
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That was over 90 years ago and then men who served must be well over 100 years of age. But since it was so long ago, I'm sure the Army's in Europe weren't very organized at the time. And there is little knowledge of who served. But there is less than 50 still living within the US. So I would say maybe around 100 (and that's pushing it!)\nProud Great Grand-Daughter of Cpl. Capo-WWI
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the soldiers (one of them)
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I don't have specific numbers for you.  Perhaps if you visit Www.goodnewsmagazine.com, they may be able to help you.  THey ran an article some months ago on these child soldiers.
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I think i know what you went through!..I spent 7 years in the Australian army, and did 3 tours to Vietnam!..Where i was then blown up 4 times by the Americans!..{mind you, they didn't discriminate, they blew each other up as well!}..But after 'demob' i found civilian life very difficult to fit back into!..I survived by going to university and getting a degree in Geology!..But i still found it hard to tolerate the odd thinking of civilians, did you notice that you didn't seem to fit in?..I wonder if this was just paranoia or what?..Many Vietvets just didn't handle it at all!..a lot went "bush" many commit ed suicide, others went insane!.Moving from one world into another so suddenly has to have some sort of effect on the unprepared mind, and i bet you were never prepared by the Army for it were you?.
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Two....\n\nOne while on active duty at Ft. Sill, OK detonating Claymore mines in series, "digging" holes with C4 and cutting down small diameter trees with Det cord with 2 British artillery Officers and another FA 2LT from my battery.  It was serious and important training!\n\nThe second was years after leaving the service while working in Iraq on a DoD contract. Myself and some English lads (Royal Marines) were traveling to Basrah.  As I recall we had a RON  at DUKE; a small camp in southern Iraq with the civilian facilities (DFAC, laundry,billeting, etc) run by a great bunch of Australians.\n\nWhile having a small "get together" we were hit by a significant mortar attack by the bad guys.  And true to form what I had hear about the Royal Marines, they made it their 1st priority to make room for the grill and tub filled with ice & Foster's beer in the bunker.
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The media would prefer not to acknowledge this but here goes:\n\nSo far the military has found, in Iraq:\n\n35 Scud Missiles fitted with Chemical Weapons Canisters instead of Explosive warheads (both scuds and chem weapons are WMDs)\n\n2 Mobile Biological weapons laboratories complete with the precursor organisms to create biological weapons (bio-weapons are a WMD)\n\n1,000 155mm Artillery shells filled with VX nerve agent instead of explosives (chem agents are a WMD)\n\nI could keep doing this for a while, but you get the idea.  The press doesn't want to acknowledge these items as WMDs because there are not mountains of them, but they are still WMDs.
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From a recent news report on June 28th, 2006 (by Kathleen Parker, Tribune Media Services):\n\n"At the center of the current skirmish is a newly unclassified document released Wednesday that seems to confirm evidence of WMD in Saddam's Iraq, including both degraded and possibly lethal chemical agents."\n\n"According to the document, coalition forces have recovered some 500 weapons munitions since 2003 that contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agents. Other key points are that these chemical agents could be used outside Iraq and that "most likely munitions remaining are sarin- and mustard-filled projectiles." "
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OK never mind that the supposed WMDs were never found -if they did indeed exist in Iraq after the mid 90s...never mind that it wasnt until we invaded Iraq that outside terrorists began infiltrating into Iraq where they were to get the best possible training in the world ----from their expiriences in combat against US coalition forces!!! thats right some future terrorists can now say they got their badges in Iraq!!! Courtesy of Bush!! THe Iraq War has made the world more unstable and more prone to future terrorism.