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Army Told Units to Destroy Gulf War Troops Records
Gulf War Veterans Came Home Ill But NO One Knew Why……
The American people, thinking it was such a fast war, there would be hardly no new casualties to worry about or take care of. Hard to believe it has been 20 years but even harder to believe is that these veterans are still trying to have their claims approved for what their service did to them.
Impossible to believe is that the Army ordered units to destroy their records. Now we know how bad it has been for these veterans to have their claims approved and why it has been impossible, but we also now know that the DOD has admitted what they were exposed to.
The Defense Department did send a letter telling the same soldier that he and others in his unit were in an area where exposure to nerve agents saran and cycolosarin was possible, but they should not worry about any side effects.
“So we all got exposed to nerve agent as well, and according to the military, that is never going to affect us,” he said. “They just wanted to advise us that we’ve been exposed.”
Rep. C.W. Young, R-Fla., says he did not know of the Army’s letter until now. His office asking the Defense Department to look into the matter.
Here is a good place to start to understand what this is all about.
PBS Gulf War Syndrome
So they did their duty as yellow ribbons and support the troops were covering almost every business and flags were waving from most homes. Hey, they won and that was all we needed to know. It was over so fast that the images of bodies on the side of the road were replaced by Iraqis surrendering to US forces because they knew they would be treated better than Saddam would have treated them. After all, they lost.
Yet when our own POW’s filed a law suit against Saddam, the Bush Administration blocked it.
House Allows Gulf War POWs to Sue Iraq Over Torture
This is how it startedRETURNED PRISONERS OF WAR
FROM GULF WAR I –1991NAME SERVICE DATE OF CAPTURE CARRIED AS RELEASE DATE
- Acree, Clifford M. USMC Jan.18, 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Andrews, William USAF — MIA 03/05/91
- Berryman, Michael C. USMC — MIA 03/05/91
- Cornum, Rhonda USA — * 03/05/91
- Dunlap, Troy USA — * 03/05/91
- Eberly, David W. USAF Jan. 17, 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Fox, Jeffrey USAF Feb. 19, 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Griffith, Thomas E. Jr. USAF Jan. 17, 1991 POW 03/04/91
- Hunter, Guy L. Jr. USMC Jan. 18, 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Lockett, David USA Jan. 20, 1991 MIA 03/04/91
- Roberts, Harry M. USAF Jan. – 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Rathbun-Nealy, Melissa USA Jan. 30, 1991 MIA 03/04/91
- Slade, Lawrence R. USN Jan. 21, 19915,3 POW 03/04/91
- Small, Joseph USMC Feb. 25, 1991 MIA 03/05/91
- Sanborn, Russell A.C. USMC Feb. 09, 1991 MIA 03/05/91
- Stamaris, Daniel USA — * 03/05/91
- Storr, Richard Dale USAF — MIA 03/05/91
- Sweet, Robert J. USAF Feb. – , 1991 MIA 03/05/91
- Tice, Jeffrey Scott USAF Jan. -, 1991 POW 03/05/91
- Wetzel, Robert USN Jan. 17, 1991 MIA 03/04/91
- Zaun, Jeffrey Norton USN Jan. 17, 1991 POW 03/04/91
Archive for Tuesday, February 15, 2005
White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs
By David G. Savage
February 15, 2005 in print edition A-1The latest chapter in the legal history of torture is being written by American pilots who were beaten and abused by Iraqis during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. And it has taken a strange twist.
The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their torture at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The rationale: Today’s Iraqis are good guys, and they need the money.
So they couldn’t get justice for being tortured any more than they could get justice for being tortured as a result of their service.
Americans want things all tied up when wars end. They don’t want to hear much about them when they are being fought and even less when they are over. We pride ourselves on saying we support the troops, but fail to admit that support ends at a certain point when our own lives matter more or we don’t want to be upset over sad stories that would change our view of ourselves. The truth is as good as we are at taking care of our veterans, we really suck at it. All these years have come and gone and now we discover our own military betrayed them.
Report: Army told units to trash Gulf War docs
By Mike Deeson – WTSP-TV (Tampa, Fla.)
Posted : Friday Feb 11, 2011 10:55:59 ESTST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A letter from the Army Department telling units to destroy their records after the end of Operation Desert Storm has made it more difficult for injured veterans to get the medical benefits they need.
The letter, never made public before now, says units were told to destroy their records because officials had no room to ship the paperwork back to the United States. The letter goes on to say it was in direct contradiction to existing Army regulations.
“This could have been one, five, six, a couple of hundred or this could be thousands [of soldiers],” says Andrew Marshall, a Florida regional officer with the nonprofit Disabled American Veterans group. “You don’t know.”
One solider trying to get help from the Veterans Administration for combat-related injuries says he has been turned down because his records are missing. He did not want to be identified.
He says he has all the medical records for the time he was in the states, but the records for everything that happened outside of the country are gone.
Marshall says the Army should have backups to the records destroyed in the Persian Gulf.
But the Army’s letter says several years after soldiers began putting in medical claims, it was discovered all records below the brigade level no longer existed.
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait; it lasted from Aug. 2, 1990, to the cease-fire on April 11, 1991. In the conflict, 383 service members died; as of last year, 467 were reported injured. About 2.225 million troops served in the war, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Not just the after-action reports have been destroyed or are missing. According to some files, when some veterans come to the Veterans Administration to get help for service-related disabilities, records show they served, but medical records are missing.
That means when the vets make claims, they are turned down.
click link above for more
UPDATE
I went to WTSP.com for the original story and here it is.
Veterans of the first Gulf War can’t get treatment Army admits medical records were destroyed
At the bottom of the article there is a call for veterans to tell the news station their story.
Indian Rocks Congressman Bill Young has never seen the Army letter until now. His office asking the Defense Department to look into the matter and see how many this affects.
He wants to hear from you and so do we. If your records were destroyed, contact me at mdeeson@wtsp.com or leave us your information in the comments section below this the story. You can contact Congressman Young at Bill.Young@mail.house.gov.
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This will leed to 100 % presumption law for this kind of action.
Ed
Why I keep saying that our Military leadership is corrupt? Stromin Norman and Colin Powell both know all of this and are not available to help their ex-soldiers. Its like our Agent Orange all over again and it continues with the burn pits, and depleted uranium with the current war soldiers and veterans. How could a parent in their right mind allow their child to join such an organization that has done these coverups and screwups since I was a kid in the 40s and 50s when they were exposing soldiers to dangerous levels of radiation in the bomb tests, then lying to them about the dangers and lying to the press and American people, and keeping a top secret set of records with the real dangers. Probably all for National Security reasons. BS. More power to Wiki-Leaks and Daniel Ellsburg and all who stand up for the veteran and freedom of information.
PBS has a great transcript of an interview done after the Gulf War. A couple of quotes from Schwarzkopf stand out,
But this is the one that really gets my blood boiling.
The truth is they knew exactly what they were sending the troops into with the invasion under Bush. They knew how long it would take and how many lives would be lost simply because they knew it 20 years before they did it. What we heard and the media allowed them to claim was nonsense like Rumsfeld saying, “It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.” because of all the predictions they had after the Gulf War.
All the deaths because of this and even the deaths in Afghanistan were because of them. Had they not pulled the troops out of Afghanistan, that war would have ended long ago but attention was on Iraq so when NATO screamed for more troops and equipment, no one cared. Taliban ended up taking back territory and more of our troops died. Now we know that the media just kept let them getting away with it all over and over again.
I wonder how many Gulf War veterans tried to get reporters involved in what the DOD was putting them through. I doubt we’ll ever know for sure.
More important than that was the use of REAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS in the Battle of Baghdad with loss of 3000 US soldiers (still classified SECRET go to http://www.ghosttroop.net for survivors testimony) but also later at Falluja to murder the remaining civilians under pretense of “flushing out” CIA created “Alqaeda”, and before in Gulf war one at the Kuwait-Irak border (in the “liberation of Kuwait”which Saddam invaded on incitations by US ambassador). Please visit Gordon Duff and JB-Campbell’s articles on ex-soviet nuclear intelligence expert Col. Dimitri Khalezov this week concerning this and visit my links and proofs on this. Google: Duff (or Campbell)+Khalezov+micronukes (or nukes or Veteranstoday or Dr-Nur). The whole alpha radiation sickness being attributed to DU or “depleted uranium”,another farce-and-fraud to disguise the responsibility of the ziocon talmudic narcopetrol military-genocidal-plunder-murder complex’world ruining and culling (6 billions to cleanse as per Kissinger) enslavment program…
This is nothing new. My Viet Nam veteran husband has been fighting the VA for years. Records he desperately needs are not in his personnnel file from St. Louis. After three years of writing letters, phone calls and asking Congressmen for help, he got a letter stating that his needed documents were destroyed after 15 years.
First they blamed missing records on the fire and now they tell you that they had to be destroyed? Wow. I thank God everyday that my husband was a pack-rat and saved everything they gave him.
A couple of things you can try is to check with the city-town hall from where he lived at the time. They usually have some records. The National Archives is another option. You have to remember that the military had every piece of paper copied over and over again. The unit he served with should have copies as well but on that it is hit or miss too.
A great place to find other people he served with is Army Lost and Found http://www.vietvet.org/armylf.htm. Veterans have been using this site for years in order to find someone to support their claim.
It is also a good idea to get the Disabled American Veterans involved in helping with the claim. Often they can find records when no one else can. http://www.dav.org
And again about this and other things: for top intel on the rat-cat black psy-ops by the mossad “master-race”talmudic-mythomaniac-kleptocrats in Tel-Aviv and their CIA”lube-boys”go to http://www.aangirfan.blogspot.com . For deep new knowledge on the historico-geographic farce-and-fraud by the transgenerational jewish crime syndicate-a mafia disguised as a religion- go to http://www.altajdeed.blogspot.com click top red line for satellite and ancient maps,go back to bottom of page for elaborate proofs and comments section and go to http://www.queen-of-sheba-university.org (false map at top and our maps’research bottom) and download QueenofShebaandIsrael pdf book by Dr.Bernard-Leeman and go to http://www.kamal-salibi.blogspot.com to October archive for english…
In my twenty years as dir of a county veterans office, I cannot begun to tell you how many Gulf veterans came in with their records and their was no evidence of anthrax shots, perodistomine shots and other stuff missing from their records. This included records from not only the Army but, Navy, Marines, AF and Coastguard.
Then it has to be on purpose since the military is notorious for too much paperwork. How could they not record all of this since they were supposed to be able to account for all of it?
Supposed to? When a S-1 admin officer is told to destroy. He simply hits the delete key. He then gets a medal and a promotion. So it is.
Every one that served in the gulf that is missing their 90-91 records needs to write in to their congressman and senator. If the records were destroyed then begin your claims as the VA has no proof to refute the claim. I think the military has steped on their third leg one to many times. We served honorably during the wa and now we demand to be served honorably by our country!
BRAVO! Too many veterans feel as if they are asking for a handout when they file a claim with the VA instead of knowing they wouldn’t need help with medical and financial matters if they did not serve. This isn’t charity. It isn’t a handout. It is a debt that was to be paid because they served and ended up suffering for it. What really sucks is that it is the way they’ve been treated that makes them feel that way. Having to fight the government after fighting in combat makes no sense at all.