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debunking the Special Assistant
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Gulf War Illnesses
- Updated: August 9th,
2005
- Come join our Organization as we face
down the agency that lies about
- Gulf War issues. Deployment Health
Support Directorate
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- 1995 - 25,000,000 Gulf War military records declassified
1996 - 6,000,000 given to OSAGWI to put on website
1996 - 57,000 put up on gulflink.osd.mil website
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At a cost of $178,000,000 less than .0095% of the
Gulf War Military records have been declassified
for public release 13 years later if 99.99% is classified
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Secret or higher, did nothing medically really happen
-
to Gulf War vets?
- Gulf War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom
- August 9th, 2005: August 5th,
Friday the Canton
Observer ran a story
- of local Gulf War veteran Wade E. George. A
benefit Sunday the 7th
- was to be held in his honor as friends and
family came to his aid.
- He had been diagnosed with a terminal lung /
brain cancer, and less
- than 3 months to get his affairs in order.
While the story continues
- to build, we ask that people make donations to
Wade to help him with
- his expenses as he continues his radiation
treatments.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8649
-
- August 3rd, 2005: The
Iraq Infection. After working for several
- weeks with Mathew Herper of Forbes magazine,
he jumps the gun,
- and releases his story minus Congressman
Dennis Moore's
- information about Walter Reed Army Hospital
during the height
- of the Acinetobacter Baumannii outbreak. Also,
it leaves out the
- fact that information was entered into the
record at Government
- Reform on July 19th about this. That DHSD had
ignored the
- Acinetobacter data in its presentation to the
committee on Iraqi
- health threats. As they also played it down to
the IOM Infectious
- Disease committee about the circumstances
around it as well. I
- was there for both.
-
- Met with DHSD on July 28th, 2005. On the
Centcom medical
- reports that are nto explained on the OSAGWI
website. Of
- which is covered in:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8615
-
- July 26th, 2005: Exposure
to chemical munitions at Khamisiyah
- maybe associated with an increased risk of
brain cancer death.
- Additional research is required to confirm
this finding.
- Mortality in US Army Gulf War Veterans Possibly Exposed to 1991 Khamisiyah Chemical Munitions Destruction
-
- The Khamasiyah demolition models do not match
the CHPPM
- Oil Well Fire smoke models for the month of
March 1991.
- The Chppm data shows the normal trade winds
for that region,
- while DHSD refused to provide weather
satellite images of the
- region, probably because the smoke clouds
confirm wind
- direction. Discussed on our plume data page
her at DSBR. http://www.gulflink.org/fallout/plume.htm
-
- July 25th, 2005: The second letter
to the Whitehouse drew a
- less nasty response from Susan Mathers at VA.
But, it did not
- answer our questions on the Gulf War Registry,
OIF Registry,
- or current VA stats on the program. So I went
to the July 19th
- Government Reform hearing that Susan testified
at, and had the
- materials entered into the record. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8585
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8589
-
- DHSD responded the following day on the
Centcom medical survey
- data, which took a year, and act of god to
get. Immediately noted
- in this was that this was Centaf, Marcent,
Navcent, but no Arcent.
- Air Force, Marines, and Navy - but no Army.
However, most noted
- was the cases of West Nile Virus. Meeting with
DHSD to discuss
- this and other issues in more detail.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8592
-
- The Veterans Disability Benefit Commission met
on July 22nd,
- and it was clear from the DOD materials
presented that they want
- to take over the VA side of Claims Processing.
With a nearly
- empty room, they may get what they want by
default.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8592
-
- The Bioport Anthrax Vaccine had been protected
by DOD under
- the Presidential waiver of Gulf War I. So
adverse reactions were
- never really followed up, and they falsely
reported the vaccine
- was safe though its different from what was
licensed. Eventually
- it would have a injunction placed against it
by the Supreme court.
- Now, the National Institute of Health has
sanctioned giving it on
- a test basis to 100 1st and 2nd grade
children. So several groups
- rallied in Washington DC to ask that this be
stopped, and that
- the AVIP be revamped into a safer program for
the troops. More
- needs to be done to convince the House and
Senate that medical
- experimentation on children of this nature is
just morally wrong. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8559
-
- June 2nd, 2005: Leishmaniasis is a
issue among American
- soldiers from the Gulf War to present OIF. In
2003 we heard the
- CDC say there wasn't a sterile cure for
Leishmaniasis. After
- listening to Alan Magill's presentation to the
IOM, its clear that
- the medical community can barely find
Leishmaniasis even
- when looking for it. Short of the gaping sores
of the Cutaneous
- variety, the skin test, and PCR are useless.
The hundred year
- old method is still the best, what you see in
a slide under a
- microscope. Some points are discussed on this
page:
- Leishmaniasis
-
- Several things
happened this week, but the most
- noted was the IOM Infectious Disease meeting
on May 26th.
- This is my comment on the meeting:
- May
26th IOM Infectious Disease meeting
- and this is the slides from the 4
presenter:
- IOM
Infectious Disease
-
- After talking with Mike Kilpatrick at the
event, I made a variety
- of complaints about his staff running
interference on me. That I
- was getting the run around from them. Friday
morning I had at
- least one response letters from DHSD waiting
for me.
- Mail
List - response from DHSD
-
- The National Archives made it clear that none
of the 15 year old
- classified information from the Gulf War was
going to be released
- at the 15 year "confidential"
declassification mark. Instead, it was
- all being reclassified. So things like the
USCENTCOM medical
- survey of 69,875 troops would remain
classified.
-
- 878193.002 USAF IRIS Secret Document
CENTCOM MEDICAL SURVELILLANCE,
- 16-22 DECEMBER 1990
SURVEY OF 69,875 PERSONNEL PARTICIPATING
- IN DESERT SHIELD.
DISEASE CASE RATES REPORTED.
FORWARDED TO CENTCOM 30 OCT 1996
-
- What I don't understand is how DOD can spend
$150,000,000
- to declassify this information in 1995 - use
medical words as the
- protocol to find them - miss a medical survey
of 69,875 troops -
- and then tell me for a year that I have to
FOIA it when it was
- forwarded to OSAGWI / DHSD in 1996. Rather
than DHSD
- instantly volunteering to find something that
might benefit Gulf War
- veterans. Why would they refuse to look at
this publicly.
-
- Supposedly, Jim Binns and the Research
Advisory Committee is
- looking into this also, and the AFIP Gulf War
tissue catalog before
- the AFIP is disbanded in the near
future.
-
- You can tell nothing is being done on Gulf War
when VA hasn't
- changed its fact sheets about Gulf War
Veterans Illnesses since
- April 2000. 5 years of status quo, but they
show they check the
- webpages this year though they haven't changed
them.
- http://www1.va.gov/OPA/fact/index.htm
- http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/gwfs.html
-
- In 1998 a lot of Gulf War Veterans / advocates
/ and groups
- were notified of NSO meetings at the Pentagon.
I asked to be
- included on that fax list in 1999. Barbara
Goodno, and Dian
- Lawhon made sure that never happened in all the years I
- attended NSO
meetings in DC. Here is the
list of names of
- people OSAGWI contacted to attend its NSO meetings
- in 1998:
- OSAGWI
fax sheet
-
- May 24th, 2005: The Whitehouse finally
decided to recognize
- my complaint of the Department of Veteran
Affairs decline in
- its handling of Gulf War medical Issues. The
letter is simple
- and understated, but its basically a
Presidential inquiry into
- the VA. The question now is will VA ignore
this as DOD ignored
- my IG complaint of of DOD's mishandling of
Gulf War issues.
- My
letter to the Whitehouse
- Response
letter from Whitehouse
-
- May 19th, 2005: The IOM Stress review
will end up having to
- review its own 1997 CCEP report, as they
suggested that
- DOD look into Stress nine years ago. The new
IOM stress
- committee had given the impression it was
unaware of CCEP,
- and needed it explained to them. So have they
really forgotten
- there part in this, or are they embarrassed
that they pushed
- Stress back in 1997 - which became so
unpopular among the
- veterans.
- http://books.nap.edu/html/ccep_focused/#ccep
-
- I talked with both the Veterans Benefit
Disability Commission
- and Undersecretary Scott Hogenson at VA HQ to
let them
- know the 800 number to the BVA judge has been
disconnected.
- The BVA website doesnt offer a new number at
this link:
- http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/page7.htm#2
- But, I got this number from them myself:
- 202-501-5970 #1010
( instead of 1-800-869-8654 )
-
- The 15 year anniversary of the Gulf War is
coming up in August, and
- the any records classified
"Confidential" are supposed to be released.
- The National Archives is making no effort to
review the Centcom records
- vault to begin releasing its confidential
records. Many like myself
- believe there is inside DOD influence on them
to ignore the data.
- Especially anything related to:
-
- 61,652 Centcom personnel survey - Gulf War 1990 - 1991
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/7198
69,875 Centcom personnel survey part 2 - Gulf War 1990 - 1991
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/7199
-
- DHSD is completely
unwilling to talk on the phone or respond
- to emails, so I had to ask Dr. David S.C. Chu
himself about the
- DHSD program. According to the UnSEC, DHSD
will remain
- for 6 more years. But, its my understanding
they have been
- expanded under Consolidated Health Support
even though the
- Pentagon seems unwilling to disclose its
current budget or
- exact current function. The budget just says
$15.5 million to transfer
- OSAGWI to Defense Health program. After that
all record of the
- program vanishes from the DOD Comptroller
records, under any
- name even under the Health Affairs budget
listings. Has DHSD
- become a secret project at DOD?
- UnSec David S.C. Chu
-
- The AFIP has been slated for closing, so Im
pushing the VA
- RAC to hurry up in its request for a catalog
of the Gulf War tissue
- samples stored there. After they close the
Walter Reed location,
- it may become impossible to get this catalog
from them down the
- road. I've asked countless times over four
years that someone
- take advantage of this vault - and hopefully
the RAC will do so.
-
- The IOM meets on May 26th and 27th on its
third installment,
- Gulf War Infectious Disease.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8372
-
- Another chapter has surfaced in DOD human
experimentation,
- a survivor of the Edgewood Arsenal chemical
experiments from
- 1955 to 1975 told me of it, and the IOM report
done years later
- from it. Michael Bailey has
talked about this for some time, and
- has been trying to get the
word out about what happened to him
- and others with him.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8375
-
- May 6th, 2005: Monday the 9th, the IOM
starts its review of Gulf
- War Stress. This is not what we wanted for
research, and are dismayed
- that VA would fund it. It shows a trend that
even though we need a
- fresh outlook at the disease, even the RAC is
missing the boat.
- But, Jim Binns of the RAC has assured me they
will look into the
- Centcom medical survey and the AFIP vault.
-
- The WRIISC clinic was not aware that in the
Persian Gulf VHA
- handbook a Gulf War Registry Phase II exam can
be done at the
- East Orange or Washington DC WRIISC clinics.
Which is a way
- to get veterans in the WRIISC clinic which has
only seen 60 veterans
- nation wide in 3 years. Another research short
fall.
-
- After yet another phone call with DHSD, I was
reminded of one of the
- precursor elements in 1998 that sparked OSAGWI
to work with me.
- I had written a letter to the President, of
which he forwarded to VA
- and OSAGWI. It turns out that letter impacted
them more than I
- realized which lead to a 3 year pattern in
which I kept them buried
- in work. By 2001, when the new President
stepped in - DHSD then
- all but tried to ignore me. So I guess they
are waiting for this President
- to send one of my letters to DHSD before they
wake up.
- OSAGWI
Whitehouse response 1
- OSAGWI
Whitehouse response 2
-
- April 27th, 2005: I had contacted
Helen Malaskiewicz about
- the Environmental Health Coordinator List
being wrong. That each
- facility was running it different, and some
facilities had changed
- coordinators or had people doubling jobs. So
since then she has
- been calling every VAMC nation wide to get the
right contact
- information. They didnt want to put out the
list incomplete, so I
- asked that they just do so with a disclaimer
that its still being
- updated. Without further a due, the updated
complete EA
- coordinators list, April 2005.
- Environmental
Agents Coordinator List
-
- April 22nd, 2005: After
asking DHSD to replace oversight
- websites taken off the list, they respond with
the updates.
- They are now hosting the PAC, and PSOB
websites that
- have been taken down. No mention of MHVCB yet,
but
- the CCEP data has been updated.
- DHSD
response letter
-
- The IOM meeting on the 20th started with Dr.
Craig Hyams
- singing the DOD somatoform song, much of the
day was
- disappointing as it appears this report is
destined to fail as
- quickly as the others. It however was very
informative, so
- read up in the commentary posting.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8242
-
- From this we learned that 4 Gulf War IOM
reviews were
- taking place, to include a Gulf War Stress
review. The
- meetings are coming up in May.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8247
-
- The WRIISC VHA handbook is now available, and
with it
- the VA Form 10-0417 screening form is
available on it.
- Little by little the WRIISC, and Gulf War
Registry data is
- being made public. Dr. Han Kang and Dr. Mark
Brown both
- agreed with me there should be a centrally
located WRIISC
- clinic. I had proposed Houston, Texas - which
housed the
- former Gulf War Referral Clinic.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8249
-
- Helen explained how if your a Gulf War vet in
Germany,
- your outside of VA care. If a veteran is
willing to pay,
- VA might reimburse a civilian doctor to do the
exam.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8257
-
- In fact, there is so much happening now behind
the scenes
- that this week that this above post is
truncated to the max.
- Even the links are one post of many on each
topic, as a
- very troubling picture unfolds of what VA says
versus what
- it does. It looks like the push is to label
Gulf War vets Stress
- related and support only things that lead to
that conclusion.
- One thing is clear, there are no VSO's in
sight, and even the
- VA Research Advisory Committee is in the dark
on events
- happening inside VA. If I hadnt caught the IOM
scheduling
- issue last week, it would have been the IOM
staff only at the
- Tuesday meeting.
-
- April 16th, 2005: The
VA RAC met on the 6th thru the 8th,
- and as usual an on cue they summarily
ignore the veterans in
- favor of listening to Pentagon puppets.
Grabenstein uses the
- committee as a opportunity to defend the
Anthrax vaccine.
- Though Jim Binns and I write each other during
the session,
- he doesn't listen - of which I've heard this
from even a few gov
- employees. At least they revised the GWVIS
report on the
- website, I had pointed out it was VA intranet
- and those of
- us on the outside cant access it.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8166
-
- EA finally puts up the WRIISC VHA handbook,
but leaves off
- the VA form 10-0417 that goes with it. This
form is a pre-screen
- form to get into the WRIISC. So to date, the
following were
- unavailable to the veterans for several years:
- Gulf
War 10-9009a (RS) code Sheets
- Environmental
Agents Coordinators List ( updated April 2005 )
- Environmental
Agents Clinicians List
- WRIISC
VHA HANDBOOK 1303-5 July15 2004
-
- In the coming weeks I will continue to provide
updates on the
- EA issue and the WRIISC clinic. Of which here
is the
- WRIISC
response letter, a complete blow off of my questions
- I posed to them. Like them having only 38
veterans nation wide
- get referred to the clinic in the last three
years, among numerous
- other things.
-
- DHSD responds to me that I'm right on the 19
problems
- I found with them, and the website. The PAC,
CCEP, MHVCB,
- PSOB, and other websites no longer exist.
Coupled with
- the complete degeneration of the medial page
on the
- gulflink.osd.mil website, and that the VSO
page at
- Deploymenthealth.osd.mil isnt updated the day
of the meetings
- with the NSO's.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8207
-
- Now I find DHSD has canceled publishing
valuable study information
- that might have been damaging to DOD.
- http://www.dior.whs.mil/icdhome/CANRCS.PDF
-
- April 1st, 2003
Part IB - List of Recurring and One-Time DoD Internal
- Reports Canceled in the Last Two Years
HA( AR) 1976 09/ 02/ 2002
REPRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES: GULF WAR VETERANS
10 USC 1074; PL 103- 337
HA( OT) 2075 08/ 11/ 2000
PERSIAN GULF ERA WOMEN'S HEALTH LINKAGE STUDY
DAMD17- 96- C- 6052 A N AF MC
SD( OT) 2066 02/ 10/ 2000
SURVEY OF PEST CONTROL PROBLEMS AND PESTICIDE
USE DURING THE GULF WAR
DEPSECDEF MEMO
961112
A N AF MC
P& R( AR) 1919 05/ 21/ 2002
CHEMICAL WEAPONS EXPOSURE STUDY REPORT
DD2733 DEPSECDEF MEMO
930309
A N AF
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- Last but not least, the IOM starts its new
Gulf War literature review of
- Medical docs. But, the February 17th, 2005
meeting they do not notify
- anyone its a public meeting - so only Dr. Mark
Brown attends. Notice
- was not sent out about the April 20th, 2005
meeting, and so I had to
- track down the IOM staff to get a response.
Here is the reply from Caroline
- Fulco at the IOM:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8221
-
- Its obivous that the IOM wants to give the
impression that no one
- cares, and this is probably something VA has
pushed silently as
- well. That way the report doesnt have to start
with thanks or recognition
- to myself or the NSO's like the other IOM
reports in the past. So they
- can just what VA wants to hear, unopposed.
-
- March 10th, 2005: Just
got a hold of the new March 7th, 2005
- VHA handbook 1303.2 from Environmental Agents
at VA.
- The announcement is the Persian Gulf Registry
is now the
- Gulf War Registry that includes troops
returning from Operation
- Iraqi Freedom. The problem is, Gulf War
veterans can barely
- find their way to a Environmental Health
Coordinator now due
- to a few information road blocks at Veteran
Affairs Medical
- Centers. Like anything in the lobby telling of
them or the program,
- or any public phone list to contact the EH
coordinators, or any
- public outreach program to get them into the
programs.
-
- Michelle
Foster of Environmental Agents finally uploaded the
- Persian Gulf Registry
Code Sheets on the VA website.
- http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/Index.cfm
- http://www1.va.gov/Environagents/page.cfm?pg=5
-
- This is just the beginning, as they also took
down several
- items to include the outreach section. So
little by little we
- will continue dialogue with EA until the
program is functioning
- at a better level than it was. The
Coordinators and Clinicians
- list have not been put up there yet, and so
for now we are all
- that have these list available to the veteran
community.
-
- March 8th, 2005:
Chppm is monitoring the environmental
- health conditions in Iraq. So we at DSBR
suggest that
- soldiers in Iraq this year bring back soil
samples of the region.
- It can be tested for bacterial as well as
chemical composition
- by Chppm. In case you get sick, its your
backup to show
- the level of soil contamination in Iraq - if
that is the case.
- But, bring enough for two labs - so a
independent lab can
- verify Chppms results. We didn't have that in
the last war.
-
- At the 1999 CDC Gulf War Conference I gave a
sand sample
- to Jack Heller during his presentation on
Chppm in the Gulf
- War. This is what the soil analysis results
looked like:
- Chppm
1999 sand sample analysis results
-
- March 3rd, 2005:
The Gulf War Exam code sheets
-
had also been removed from the Environmental Health
-
coordinators page at VA:
-
Ihttp://www1.va.gov/Environagents/page.cfm?pg=5
- I've been assured by Helen Malaskiewicz
that
- shortly the new code sheets will be put back up.
- Michelle Foster of VA Environmental
agents
- hasn't quite got it done yet:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8099
-
- March 2nd, 2005:
The War Related Illness & Injury
- Study Clinic had posted its DC statistics, in
which 38
- veterans had been sent nationally over a 3
year period.
- Which is a horrendously low figure for
replacing the
- now defunct Gulf War Referral Clinics.
-
- With some effort, we pinned down that Persian
Gulf
- Coordinators at Veteran Affairs Medical
Centers had
- become invisible to veterans walking in. The
once
- public positions had been changed to C&P
staff
- carrying multiple rolls, and one that veterans
had no
- idea of. So even though Persian Gulf Registry
exams
- continued, they became part of a Compensation
and
- Pension exam - something a veteran found out
after
- they filed a VA claim. Not something they saw
or heard
- about in the lobby of a VA hospital.
-
- Then came the issue of the Gulf War exam code
sheets
- that were no longer available on the website
either.
-
- In the old days the Persian Gulf Coordinators
had a
- master sheet up on the VA net of all the phone
numbers,
- and locations of these people. That has
vanished.
- So we looked to the VA / VISN phone
directories,
- and found 3 remaining facilities with the
Persian
- Gulf Coordinator listed publicly. We called
them, and
- those people were bewildered we called them
Persian
- Gulf Coordinators. In our old records, the
only surviving
- PGC was Ron Ratliff of the Houston VAMC - so
far
- most are admin or C&P staff doubling in.
No signs,
- or displays in the lobby, or literature
explaining who
- they were or how to find them
-
- So we at DSBR will be building a new Persian
Gulf Registry /
- WRIISC program page in conjunction with how to
file
- a VA complaint page. For now we are making the
Persian
- Gulf Coordinators list public again for the
first time in years.
- Persian
Gulf Coordinators ( updated again April 2005 )
- Persian
Gulf Clinicians
-
- Our goal is to make this whole program public
again,
- and easy to access. So in the coming weeks we
will be
- conferring with VA Environmental Agents in
conjunction
- with Deployment Health Support Directorate to
rectify
- problems from PGR to WRIISC. Its confusing,
but it
- doesn't have to stay that way.
-
- February 24th, 2005: A "Tiger
Team" has been
- working the last few weeks to procure a
variety of
- documents from the OSAGWI server. Today we
got
- the 2nd page to the July 22nd, 1997 letter to
Edward
- D. Martin from Michael A. Friedman. The letter
given
- the Senate VA committee, but missing this page
since
- since 1997. 8 years this went uncorrected.
-
- The sequence went page 273 to 274, but when you
- read the document you see that it skips from 1 to page 3
- Original File:
- http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/library/senate/appx_ee.pdf
- Our updated 14 page file with page 2:
- http://www.gulflink.org/senate/appx_ee.pdf
928KB
-
- On February 7th we also found the Presidential
Advisory
- Committee website wasn't available anymore,
what was
- left of it resided on OSAGWI's
Gulflink.osd.mil . But,
- parts of it were not functioning there either.
Noticeably
- missing was the Special Report 12/96. The
below
- message is a the message sent to DHSD
requesting
- those files, and link corrections.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/8009
More to follow.......
- February 11th, 2005: It appears the
Senate is busy
- trying to find ways to further cheat
soldiers / veterans
- who have been injured in the line of duty.
-
- Veteran Affairs has closely guarded the secret
that family
- members of a veteran who has hurt or killed in
VA care
- could file against VA with a SF 95 Tort claim
through the
- Department of Justice.
- How
to complain to Veteran Affairs about your health care
-
- So now they are trying to find ways to limit
judgments.
- Problem is, VA is great at avoiding going to
court by using
- technicalities to get cases dismissed. If a
veteran or family
- members ever even hear of this closely guarded
procedure.
- Few win this procedure, which after years of
fighting the debts
- sometimes outweigh the ruling judgment.
-
- What needs to be done is get the $160 billion
back from
- Bush that he wasted in Iraq, and pay for the
war himself
- instead of disabled families waiting for years
in judicial courts
- from the fallout of injuries suffered in Iraq.
-
- January 6th, 2005: For
those that visit a VA Medical
- Center, and you had trouble with them -
I'm working on
- a new page that deals with how to file a
complaint as a
- Gulf War veteran should problems arise in your
VA care.
- For now the page will be generic, rather than state to
- state specific. But, if others help in each state I can
- narrow names and phone numbers down better. Also, if
- veterans will send the information - I will
build a complaint
- page showing complaints of VAMC's in each
state.
- VAMC
care complaint page
-
- December 20th, 2004: The Gulf War and Health, Volume 3:
- Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants report
is available
- at the IOM website. Its a 600 page report,
but in the
- Executive Summary
at least common OSHA findings of
- Cancers are conceded. The rest of the
report is the IOM
- doing everything it can to distance DOD, and
the Gulf War
- veterans from any causal effects. Even common
ones. So that
- there wont be any effort to link sick vets to
anything even obvious,
- and lets DOD continue its Somatization
campaign.
-
- Acinetobacter Baumanii is found in the soil of
Iraq, which means
- this very rare super bug will continue to
infect troops in Iraq. Its
- not treatable with most known antibiotics, and
is not curable. Yet,
- DHSD has taken a cavalier attitude towards it
which is reflected
- in its November 30th,
2004 NSO meeting even though other
- countries started recognizing the outbreak in
March 2003.
- Now at 102 injured American soldiers coming from Iraq. If you
- were at Walter Reed Army Hospital being
treated for Cutaneous
- Leishmaniasis, you probably had this as well.
We at DSBR
- believe this enough to buy the domain name http://www.Acinetobacter.org
- and start a website to track soldiers within
this issue.
-
- Since September 2002 we have met with a
plethora of government
- agencies on the current Gulf War II. The
IOM, VA, DHSD, GAO,
- and others. We have also been in the global
media, and recently
- finished a media tour of Germany. Some of this is outlined on the
-
following web page.
- Gulf
War II in review
-
- We continue here at DSBR
to ask questions, and ask that you join
our discussion group at
GulfLINK
Mail List. Not to worry, by joining
our list you will see that
OSAGWI will also see your message as well -
they ( and many other government
agencies ) monitor us daily for news
and updates.
-
-
Sincerely
Kirt P. Love
Disabled Gulf War Veteran
-
-
-
-
April
15th 2003
- The Turkey Awards:
- Given to those individuals
that struggle to
make Gulf War
veterans lives worse
instead
of better.
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