Reply #68: thanks but no thanks on the EOD job [View All]

i went and looked up exactly what major rokke said about inhalation of DU, quoting him:

ROKKE: Absolutely. My exposure was due to inhalation, and that was faulty gas masks which are faulty today and the Department of the Army has acknowledged it, the Department of Defense of has acknowledged it, the US General Accounting Office has verified that the gas masks are defective. The filters are inadequate to take out the primary less than .1 - .3 micron uranium particles that go right in the lung.

read the whole interview here http://www.ecotecture.com/library_eco/interviews/rokke_du_1b.html if you wish, but i believe the above quote stands well on its own (i.e., is not taken out of context).

from what you're saying, the 'scuba' system you're familiar with sounds vastly superior to the 'gas masks' mr. rokke claims to have used? from what you said in the posts above (i.e., that the military regarded DU as a health hazard) why weren't mr. rokke's clean-up crews given the very best protective gear/apparatus available?

when looking for the quote quoted above, i also came upon a longer address by mr. rokke ( http://sftimes.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$61 )

where he details other seemingly unhealthy conditions his unit encounter in the gulf war, these include:

anthrax and botulinum vaccinations (of which some batches were contaminated with squalene)

ingestion of PB tablets (an nerve gas antidote)

contaminated food (possibly due to sabotage with biological agents)

water sanitation issues that prevented bathing

exposure to incomplete combustion of inorganic and organic compounds from oil well fires

physical injuries

quite frankly, it's not at all clear to me how these factors shouldn't be given some?/equal?/greater? consideration compared to depleted uranium in trying to determine the cause of the gulf war syndrome.