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The stories are hard to keep seperated at this point in time........

What happened next is a little unclear, but several soldiers became ill, and the soldiers quickly put on their chemical-protection gear. On Sunday night, members of the chemical unit reported that they had identified the problem as CN, a riot-control gas that causes vomiting and blisters. Madere said he did not think that the soldiers were seriously ill.

http://www.journalnow.com/wsj/MGBEU4NB9ED.html

[Chuckster]

"On Sunday night, members of the chemical unit reported that they had identified the problem as CN, a riot-control gas that causes vomiting and blisters"

BS Alert

I have been exposed to CN on several occasions. During Army Chemical warfare training, soldiers were required to enter a chamber filled with CN. They entered wearing their protective masks. Once everyone was in the chamber, the door was closed and the DI removed his mask, THEN the DI had the soldiers, one at a time, remove their mask, sound off with name rank and number, then exit the chamber, one at a time in an orderly manner. Choking, crying and gasping was allowed once outside. This was done in Basic Combat Training, Advanced Individual Training and repeated periodically (Annually IIRC) throughout ones Army career.

Once outside the chamber, flushing the eyes and exposed skin with water pretty much eliminated the symptoms. I never saw any blisters or permanent injury from this exercise and I participated dozens of times as both trainee and trainer during the course of my fifteen years of service. I did observe vomiting occasionally but it was by no means considered serious; ordinarily resulting in the affected soldier simply flushing with water and soldiering on.