our member Scout2/2ACR suggested we start a Gulf War Illness Forum and i put it up this am. i hope our gulf war veterans find it helpful, please let your buddies know you have a home here at hadit.com

if you haven't checked out the VA's on Gulf War Illness it's worth at least a look here you go http://www1.va.gov/GulfWar/

tbird

THANKS TBIRD FOR THIS GULF WAR FORUM!!!

TBird Thank you for adding this forum.

We Gulf War Vets do have a legit illness. Below is a link to a news cast.

http://www.vmwusa.org/index.php/news/clips...itimate-illness

You know I have always wondered who was effected by this affliction the most? I was in the GW1 and I was as deep as anyone just about I hauled all the rounds shot and the bombs dropped and the powder that it took to put them down range and I worked day and Night 8hr sleep a week and I didn't get crap, burning tanks and dead and all. Is it the Infantry, tank crews, they were in the deepest. Seems to me I read a study done in England and no Gulf war Illness did not exist there in there troops we done most of the fighting? what are the facts on GW1 illness? Not to piss anyone off but this is true from my prospective. I was there.............

depleted uranium... and more, and more...etc

In answer to Yoggie2, it affects many. It affects us that were in the Infantry, the medic back at a corp hospital or those sitting in Ryahad. Did you take the little white pill? Was it recorded? Probably yes and no it wasn't recorded. I got the chance and pleasure to experience a gas event that after all this time has been releaded I beleive in 2005 in the form of a top level NBC report. We were told it was a coincedience when more than 12 M8 alarms malfunctioned at the same time. The NBC report confirmed positive results and that it was a low level sarin attack. This happened approcxemently 3 days prior to the ground forces entering Iraq. No we had no protective equipment except for our protectinve masks and boots. Our equipment was used when we did the initial occupation of AO Normandy in October 1990 andd were never resupplied.

I have since been diagnosed with PN (periphial neroupathy) and causlagia. Had knee surgery that didn't fit what the docs expected to see.

No, Gulf War Syndrom is real and does need to be addressed as a dibilitating affliction.

The report is here: http://sph.bu.edu/insider/images/stories/r...Report_2008.pdf

All 465 pages.

While it is now known to be a real illness and is no longer a 'syndrome', (England actually came to this conclusion a few years ago) the cause is still undecided. It appears at this time to be the BP pills and sarin exposure as the more likely culprits.

Common sence and a little knowledge of government/DoD policies would allow most to come to the conclusion that this has been sidelined for years. The BP pills were and still are listed as an "experimental" drug. Clinical testing has proven it causes long term neurological damage. Low level Sarin has had simular results. Add the two together and it doesn't take a scientist to figure out the possible consequences.

Had the public known a year or two after after the War that the DoD's policy of forcing soldiers to take experimental drugs may have made thousands permanatly harmed, there would be outrage. But, keep it quiet as long as possible, let's say 14 years, and it becomes more of an 'Oops', and less of an outrage. It has worked, because the news came out in Nov '08 that BP is the most likely culprit and there is no public outrage, no media questioning, in fact most people still do not know.

We are still liars in most peoples minds.

Tomorrow (1-20-2008) is the start of a new day. Time for us, we band of brothers to hold the new administration to its words. Write your Congressman and Senators and expess your disconcern with the prevailing VA red tape crap. It only takes a second to lose life or limb. Why the big wait then?

Its taken 18 years for the Gulf War Desert Storm to begin to get any type of recognition to our injuries, lets get the word out.