Blue Water Navy

News story:

KIMBERLY HEFLING
VA to reopen Gulf War vets' files
Associated Press - Feb 26, 2010

The decision comes four months after Shinseki opened the door for as many as 200,000 Vietnam veterans to receive service-related compensation for three illnesses stemming from exposure to the Agent Orange herbicide.

Another reason to be persistant. It's not just us Vietnam Veterans, but future Veterans as well.

The October issue of the Legion Magazine has an excellent article on the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)

Margaret Davidson.
Cause and Effect:
The Millenium Cohort Study focuses on the long term health care consequences of deployment.
The American Legion Magazine October 2010 p33

Unfortunately, it is not available electronically from the Legion website. You need the paper copy. I thought the Legion article itself was balanced. This series of studies was initiated in response to reports of mysterious illnesses (Gulf War Syndrome, the new Agent Orange) attributed to vaccinations, depleted uranium and ….stress. I am concerned about where all this is going. Sure stress is involved in every illness out there. But especially when adaptive human behavior is involved, it is really hard to separate the cause from the effect. I haven't seen the published studies yet. They are on my list.