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Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:10:51 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SNET: gulf-chat 4) Shays vs. the VA
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So, this means we should change the name of the
VA to the PA -- Pentagon's Adminstration, yes?
Why does this idea give me the shivvers?
/s/ Paul Mitchell
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>After hearing testimony from veterans, subcommittee Chairman Christopher
>Shays said, the problem is that "the VA has been listening to the
>Pentagon and not the veterans."
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>http://www.dcmilitary.com/pt_vet1213.html
>December 13, 1996
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>Veterans testify before Congress on Gulf War Syndrome
>
>U.S. veterans of the Persian Gulf War testified on Capitol Hill this
>week about what has come to be known as Gulf War Syndrome, a variety of
>health problems possibly related to service members' exposure to harmful
>chemicals during their deployment in the region in the early 1990s.
>
>Appearing before the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee
>on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, veterans described
>illnesses they believe are linked to their military service.
>
>A 34-year-old Marine combat engineer, Maj. Randy Lee Hebert, recalled
>how he received orders to put on protective clothing twice on the first
>day of the ground war Feb. 24, 1991. He explained feeling "funny" after
>removing his mask when the alert was over.
>
>Since that day, he said, he has experienced multiple medical problems,
>including: depression, difficulty reading, aggressive behavior, vomiting
>and diarrhea. Last year he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral
>sclerosis, a deterioration of the nervous system that affects muscle
>control.
>
>Other chronic symptoms attributed to Gulf War Syndrome include: a
>weakened immune system, memory loss, joint pain, rashes and mood
>changes. Some also believe birth defects in veterans' children can be
>traced to the parents' Gulf War service. The question that is
>continually raised is whether this myriad of illnesses has a single
>cause.
>
>Testifying at the hearing, Frances Murphy, head of the Veterans' Affairs
>program that treats Gulf War veterans, said that there was no diagnostic
>test for past chemical-weapons exposure and that no treatment or
>antidote was available, other than treating individual symptoms.
>
>While chemical-weapons exposure is cited as a probable cause of Gulf War
>Syndrome, other possible sources were also explored at the hearing,
>among them, exposure to oil wells set ablaze during the war, contact
>with battlefield pollutants, the use of insecticides and medication
>provided soldiers to inoculate them against parasites in the region.
>
>The commander of the Army's 5th Chemical Troop testified that his
>chemical-detection team, in conjunction with British forces, identified
>a mustard-gas agent leaking from a container found near a Kuwaiti school
>in August of 1991.
>
>Another soldier testified that the equipment in his Fox
>chemical-detection vehicle -- a sort of mobile laboratory -- also picked
>up traces of a mustard agent in an Iraqi ammunition depot later
>destroyed by Allied forces.
>
>These readings were questioned later and determined to be false
>positives by DoD officials.
>
>After hearing testimony from veterans, subcommittee Chairman Christopher
>Shays said, the problem is that "the VA has been listening to the
>Pentagon and not the veterans."
>
>Shays also said there is a need to bring in outside medical experts;
>that the VA needs people with an expertise in chemical exposure.
>
>Bernard Rostker, head of the Department of Defense's Persian
>Gulf-illness investigation, said the extent of the problems documented
>were unforeseen in the first years after the war, given that there is
>still no definitive link between veterans' symptoms and chemical
>exposure.
>
>"You never know what you don't know," he said.
>
>In a related development, the British government, allied with U.S.
>forces during Desert Storm, announced the formation of an independent
>medical panel to examine the health problems of its own Gulf War
>veterans, admitting that it had formerly underreported the number of
>veterans believed to be suffering from Gulf War-associated maladies.
> (MDW Public Affairs)
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>Friday, December 1996
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