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Updated: December 10th, 2007 

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Gulf War issues. Deployment Health Support Directorate

 

1995 - 20,000,000 Gulf War military records declassified
1996 - 6,000,000 files given to OSAGWI to put on website

1996 - 1,700,000 files are medically relevant
1997 - 42,943 put up on gulflink.osd.mil website

 

At a cost of $150,000,000 less than .007% of the Gulf War Military 

records have been declassified for public release. 16 years later 

99.993% is classified , and the Pentagon has vowed to reclassify 

these records. This include Confidential Records that should have 

been released at the 15 year mark.

 

On February 14th 1999 I sent OSAGWI a FOIA asking for the bulk 

of its records names be declassified, and sent to me. I received a 

partial reply from General Vesser in a box with 2,877 pages, and 

two CD's. On the CD was the Structured database file and other part 

was a unstructured file. Again, only of the 42,943 files on the 

public server. In the Nov 5th1999 response letter from OSAGWI to 

me they explained they were processing the classified portion of the 

log sheets for me. That was the last I ever heard from them on paper 

concerning this FOIA. It remains mostly unanswered to this day 

on the other 6,000,00 files.
OSAGWI database file of 42,943 files 

OSAGWI response to me concerning partial response to FOIA

 

The Pentagon hides behind Executive Order 13292 so that the bulk 

of what happened in the Gulf remains hidden from the public. Except 

this is criminal intent to withhold information of neglect, misconduct, 

mishandling, and much worse during the Gulf War. The very same 

people who say nothing happened are the ones with full knowledge 

of those records, and vow to conceal them at all cost. The same people 

who lead us back to Iraq again under false terms, and created yet another 

disaster to live down.  

 

There should be FULL public disclosure, and we have the right to know 

what really happened in Iraq from 1990 to present.

How to complain to Veteran Affairs about your health care

Gulf War, and Operation Iraqi Freedom

December 10th, 2007: Gulf War Review, RAC, and dead ends

 

There have been a few events throughout the year. But, since the 

RAC rigged the Senate hearings there wasn't much to report. They 

failed just like every other hearing the RAC tries to fix. The same 

tired people trying to get funding for there buddies while ignoring all 

else in favor of private agendas. 

 

My argument with the RAC is that I would rather have the $10,000,000 

they would spend on the DOD CDMRP Gulf War Research instead 

be spent on a independent clinical program. Just like I am angry that 

Dr. Haley wants to use the bulk of the VA funding for Brain Imaging. 

We have metabolic disorders among Gulf War vets but the RAC 

would rather fixate on Brain Imaging. So my question stands: "How 

do you treat a 5% reduction in brain mass?". The answer, you cant 

unless you plan to regenerate brain tissue or give psychotropic drugs 

to take our minds off loosing our minds. So these are dead ends that 

will end up wasting more of our time rather than trying to improve 

quality of life now. Then again the RAC doesnt care about veteran 

involvement or producing results. They don't even post there phone 

number for people to contact them. 

Note: here is the number - 785-350-4617 

 

Many like myself have said for years that Hyperlipidemia should be 

paid more attention to among Gulf War vets. Its a sign of a metabolic 

problem that disrupts our lives like it does mine. So when I went to look 

up one report by the Journal of General Internal Medicine in 1995
there was a portion of the report that said "Hyperlipidemia accounted 
for 65% of the new diagnoses". The title was: 
"Evaluation of health-related quality of life in Persian Gulf War Veterans." 

When I went to download it from the Deployment Health and OSAGWI 

websites it had been taken down. So here is yet another piece of 

evidence in which DOD wants to conceal anything that points a smoking 

gun at Gulf War Illnesses. So far they have been unresponsive to my 

request that they put it back up.

 

The Gulf War Review is to be printed for the first time since July 

2006. Except VA Environmental Agents is trying out of spite to 

ignore researchers and the VA Gulf War Biorepository in Tucson, 

Arizona so they can write about the IOM report on Gulf War and 

Health: Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of 

Deployment Related Stress which has no recommendations
for Gulf War vets at all. Just OIF. VA EA has to make sure that 

veterans have no where to go or to write to. Got to keep us down.

 

VA extended the time on compensation for Gulf War vets, its just 

that VA will make sure that almost no one files under "Undiagnosed 

Illness". 13,027 out of 280,623 filed for this. That is .4% of the total 

Gulf War veterans trying to get compensation. About 3,384 got that 

rating. 1% of 1% which is not worth fighting for compared to the whole 

of the problem. This is meant to appear as if there is progress while 

much bigger issues go on being ignored. 

 

The spread of the Acinetobacter Baumannii from Iraq is getting worse 

as the CDC backs away from it. More people die, and the bug continues 

to mutate to where it now doesn't respond to Imipenem anymore. So 

the need for PCR equipment in ICU's is urgent in that diagnostics with 

culturing take too long. Around 4 hours for PCR. So after writing to the 

Temple VAMC the Director assures me that they will be using PCR 

equipment there shortly. 

http://www.gulflink .org/docs/ letter.jpg 

 

If things continue as they are with the VA RAC then there will be no 

progress or hope for Gulf War vets in 2008. There needs to be a change 

in the way things have been these last 5 years. But, there is no

oversight of the corrupt RAC now totally out of control. With no other 

game in town there is no one else to make suggestions for us on the 

hill. But, these people don't care about that. The just want to play while 

the money is still there. As long as the vets themselves do not ask for 

more then there wont be anything. Are you happy with the way things 

are with VA on Gulf War Illness issues? Do you even care? 

 

It sucks for me. Bad health care, improper diagnostics, and no hints of 

hope from on high in VA other than business as usual.

 

May 27th, 2007: Duck and cover, no one is one your side

 

Granted there was a lot that happened between January and May this 

year in the veteran circles, I choose not to air it with the folks in DC 

playing dirty games on our issues. Both sides have been wrong, and 

no sense spelling this out to either benefit over the other. 

 

In February started the trickle down effect of problems at Walter Reed 

Army Hospital. In the frenzy it was white washed to just a building 

maintenance issue. In March came the resignations with trumped up 

advisory committees to give the appearance of progress. In the background 

DOD Health Affairs was getting rid of military health advocates like at 

the Military Severely Injured Centers so that troops didn't have assistance 

from the outside on their MEB's. The real insult was the playing down of 

infectious disease issues like Acinetobacter Baumannii which took limbs 

of soldiers that might have kept the limb from the IED if they hadn't been 

put in the contaminated wards. 

 

The rise of Klebsiella Pnuemonia in Iraq should set off alarm bells since 

this is probably part of our 1987 American Bioweapons shipment to Iraq.

 

Information courtesy of the 1994 Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has oversight responsibility for the Export Administration Act. Pursuant to the Act, Committee staff contacted the U.S. Department of Commerce and requested information on the export of biological materials during the years prior to the Gulf War.

 

Date      : August 31, 1987
Sent To   : State Company for Drug Industries
Materials Shipped:

 Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae (ATCC 10031)
          Batch # 08-13-80 (1 each)

Is this ATCC 10031? Its every bit as drug resistant and bad as Acinetobacter 

Baumannii with a higher rate of military infections. The media is remaining 

silent, though I put this on the record with the Government Reform Subcommittee.

 

The Anthrax Vaccine program is mandatory again even though it has failed in 2 new 

human test trials. Try as they might, they cannot make a safe Anthrax Vaccine in 

3 different attempts. But get by on legal end run on technicalities at FDA. This is 

a shameful program which insults the entire military, what happened to choice if 

you want it or not. The Feres Doctrine goes on protecting the military illegal 

medical experimentation by denying troops the ability to sue in court over 

damages from the vaccine. 

 

The WRIISC program fails in a spectacular way by only admitting 183 Gulf war 

vets through national referrals over 5 years, versus the 771 in the Gulf War Referral 

centers it was supposed to replace. The staff there deny any problems though 

both centers see about 25 national veteran referrals per year. They end up labeling 

over 40% with Neurotic Depression which suggest Dr. Charles Engle over at Walter 

Reed is influencing diagnosis at the clinic. None of this is what we planned into 

Public Law 105-368 in 1997. Of which DOD and VA corrupted with this program. 

 

Roberta White of Boston University found brain scans of 36 Gulf War vets 

showed cortex was 5% smaller than usual. Of course Mike Kilpatrick of Force 

Health Protection spoke ill of the study to defend DOD Health Affairs. 

Anything that looks like progress should be quickly squashed by DOD 

before they have to start taking care of people. 

 

The biggest threat now to the Military has become a public health issue as 

Perchlorates have leached into the water supply. Ammonium Perchlorate is 

a salt used in rocket fuels. It causes Thyroid problems and birth defects. 

Its on the surface of live fire ranges and was all over the battle field during 

the 1990-1991 Gulf War. The military is spending $114,000,000 to find a 

way to replace it. But, when I called Force Health Protection asking for 

them to address it they just said back to me "Oh, its been around for a 

while". That translates into "Your on your own till Congress demands we 

do something about it". Like Project SHAD which they have buried again. 

 

I tried to address the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning 

Wounded Warriors in San Antonio May 4th 2007. But, they rigged the public 

comment session with pre-approved ringers so the audience could not interject. 

So I approached Bob Dole to give you a quick summary, and he just came back 

at me saying "That's a lot of big words". Which gave me a flash back of when 

I talked to another Presidential token committee member in 1999 - 

Admiral Elmo Zumwaldt. He wasn't any more helpful either. It was a nearly 

empty room with government personnel telling the committee they are better 

than average. Except, where was the audience of sick soldiers to defend or 

dispute any of this. The ALL military public affairs staff in uniform was enough 

to tell me this was a smoke screen to cut off complainers.

 

 

 

 

January 22nd, 2007: Infectious Diseases of Gulf War and OIF

 

Two infections have become a increasing issue that might have effected 

Gulf War vets 15 years ago. Acinetobacter Baumannii and Blastocystis 

Hominis. 

 

Before the Gulf War, during the Iran / Iraq war there were patients with head 

trauma that surfaced with a drug resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii. It is unknown

just how many soldiers in the Gulf War would have this but not be test for it.

After the Gulf War the Iraqi medical system collapsed and Iraqi's rushed to get 

medicines from any source they could. So low grade veterinary drugs were 

used to treat infections. In the end over 15 years this worsened a already 

mutated bacterium to "Super bug" status. Now plaguing OIF troops in Iraq. 

DHSD fought me on this citing this was NOT a local soil variety but only a 

hospital infection, though LCDR Kyle Peterson had said in 2003 it was showing 

up in local Iraqis from the soil. The Pentagon, CHPPM, DHSD, and even the 

IOM have done everything possible not to answer my questions since 2003 

on the Acinetobacter infection. To include ignoring a Congressional request 

from Rep. Dennis Moore for answers on it.

The Invisible Enemy in Iraq Wired Magazine, Jan 22nd 2007

 

Another infection, Blastocystis Hominis has been drawn into question of 

whether it has been part of the Gastrointestinal disorders of Gulf War vets. 

Oddly, the study:

Chronic Multisymptom Illness Affecting Air Force Veterans of the Gulf War vets

begins to talk about it. Then all reference to Blastocystis is removed from its 

text on the net. As if someone knew it was a a problem, and asked that part 

not be included in the printed text on the internet. So there are two studies in

the works now that might begin to answer this. This being a problem now for

troops in Iraq.

 

The logical place to turn would be the AFIP, to ask questions. But, the 

AFIP hasn't been honest about its tissue vault for years. It refuses to cooperate 

with independent researchers. Its scheduled to be decommissioned shortly to 

the relief of the Pentagon - so they can hide the data from the public. This is 

something I know from experience with them since 2000.

 

Well, without Congressional Oversight or protective committees in place the 

Pentagon can go on ignoring vets like myself, and better yet insult us with 

psychiatric studies to draw attention away from any real illnesses. Which of 

course is passed onto OIF troops who get stiff armed by the same people 

who burned us to hide from the truth. More people will die, and the Pentagon 

goes on killing vets with dishonest practices.

 

We continue here at DSBR to ask questions, and ask that you join
our discussion group at GulfLINK Mail List.

      Sincerely

      Kirt P. Love 

      Disabled Gulf War Veteran 

      Contact: Kirt Love

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