[Constantine XIII]

Is there any similar occurance in Army history? That column went for a long time without stopping. I don't know enough to say one way or another, so I'll bow to your knowledge of these things. :p

[archy]

Is there any similar occurance in Army history? That column went for a long time without stopping.

I'm not aware of any particularly widespread reports of anything similar among the British Eighth Army's *Desert Rats* of WWII, who endured similarly harsh consditions for long duration, nor do I know of any particular reports of anything similar on the Axis side, though incidents involving poisoned water holes, heat prostration and dehydration and other incapaciting maladies were no stranger, of course. My war college thesis was on operations of the period in Libyan Cyrenaica, so I think I'd have come across references to such at some point in my research.

Of course the biblical plagues of Moses come to mind....maybe those familiar with the appropriate verses from the Chapter of the Apocalypse would be able to find a comparison.

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[U S Army EOD]

I have no idea. People die from blood clots all the time. I have had a serious one myself from hitting a diving board. All I am saying is, if all of a sudden the death rate is higher among normally healthy people, we need to look at what that group is doing different. If they all went to the same place, if they all ate the same thing, if they all had the same innoculations at the same time.

While I was in EOD we destroyed 22 55 gal drums of agent orange on my demo range. My entire unit a few years later seem to be all having the same problems. However, there was a spread of 10 years in all of our ages. This was an indicator that something had happened to all of us at the same time such as exposure to something that hurt us.