Civilians - meaning service personnel wives and children - have reported in ill but no data has been provided on that! These service personnel sent home items from the Gulf and then returned, themselves and more equipment after the war.
Members of the same units, who did not go to the war but dealt with returning equipment from the Gulf have reported ill.
Civilians at the port sites that work with the equipment returning from the Gulf have reported in ill. Their families have also experienced health problems.
Remember, diseases and exposures travel by vectors and a vector can be equipment or personnel.
Remember also that the report just covers the U.S. casualties that have reported into the VA and DoD and not those that have utilized civilian sources. Remember also the data does not include coalition nations' soldiers health data.
Gulf War veteran groups have tried for over 12 years to get the DoD, VA, Congress and several administrations to admit their lack of accountability and to apply lessons learned to improve the medical care of injured and ill combat veterans.
Members of the same units, who did not go to the war but dealt with returning equipment from the Gulf have reported ill.
Civilians at the port sites that work with the equipment returning from the Gulf have reported in ill. Their families have also experienced health problems.
Remember, diseases and exposures travel by vectors and a vector can be equipment or personnel.
Remember also that the report just covers the U.S. casualties that have reported into the VA and DoD and not those that have utilized civilian sources. Remember also the data does not include coalition nations' soldiers health data.
Gulf War veteran groups have tried for over 12 years to get the DoD, VA, Congress and several administrations to admit their lack of accountability and to apply lessons learned to improve the medical care of injured and ill combat veterans.