So I guess you didn’t read the Royal Australian Navy reports in re; flash steam distillers.
Ron, we’ve been here before. Address the question, and quit questioning my motives. The AirForce reports quoted were from the ‘80s, just quoted in 2000.
But you knew that, didn’t you.
First, we have never discussed this, or anything else before. You have me confused with someone else. The simple fact is that there is no good evidence of health problems for people who even had direct exposure. But fine, give them the benefit of the doubt. But the idea that some guy on a destroyer 30 miles out at see has any effects is laughably absurd on its face, and it is a good thing all of your claims are being turned down.
I’ll be back tomorrow, RWA.
Don’t let the Professional Poster get to you.
If you started a thread talking about the Earth being a spheroid, he’d use up a terabyte claiming that it was flat just to get some attention.
If one accepts the total 2.7 million Americans as actually having served “In-County,” and I believe 800K (approx.-do you agree with this 800K figure?) were “Blue Water Navy Veterans” then the government has, or hopes to have about 1.9 million VN Vets to deal with. Obvious to most, they are trying to reduce the figure. Of course this number was prior to illness, car/truck deaths, work deaths,etc. taking their toll since war’s end.
Oddly, I have census figures (inexact as they are) that show 1.7 million VN Vets alive in 1995, yet only one million alive in Y2K, only 5 years later. Much confusion here.
How do we address this problem if the gov. doesn’t even know how many of us are alive today? No wonder so many “phony vets” surface! Some even drawing veterans benefits.
Methinks the gov. is trying to draw a line somewhere, but excluding (from the class) 800K recipients of the Vietnam Service Medal who received it some 40 years ago is grossly unfair. Only turns one vet against another.
Ever noted how gov. dislikes intensely the retroactive AWARDING of medals (CAB, CMB for Aviation Unit medics), Air Assault Badge,etc., yet deigns to strip the VSM (in essence) and toss 800K sailors from the ship?