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- The September 2002 to Present:
- August 2nd, 2002: DSBR,
DSJF meet with Mike
Kilpatrick
of Deployment Health Support Directorate to discuss dozens
of Deployment Health questions. We cover Gulf War, SHAD,
Afghanistan, and Classified missions since 1961. DHSD is
unwilling to allow us to meet with the other NSO's at DOD
round table - which we did for many years. So now we are
meeting with them monthly to continue our dialogue for
answers to the tons of issues that still remain. Most noted,
why is 99% of the 6,000,000 Gulf war records remaining at
DHSD classified SECRET or higher if little out of the ordinary
happened in Iraq. -
August 5th, 2002: DSBR receives a response from DIA to a
1999 FOIA on Iraqi Nuclear Reactors ( PLURAL ). All nine
documents are NOT releasable, which further confirms DOD's
unwillingness to divulge mistakes it made in Iraq when
bombing its nuclear materials. - The Ministry of Defense has started an attempt to overturn a
- landmark legal ruling which officially recognizes Gulf War Syndrome
- August 13th, 2002: DHSD is trying to say at this time that 52
- of the 112 SHAD missions never took place. They have names of
- the missions, but supposedly canceled. Yet, in 1963 over 24 other
- classified naval missions took place were the Deck Logs are
- missing. With more than 1044 classified naval missions in the
- 1960's, how can so many not be tied to SHAD.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3118
-
August 24th, 2002: The different Gulf War advocacy groups are - asking the same question now, if VA says it only has 183,037
- Service Connected Gulf War then why does the United States
- Census shows 325,000 Service Connected Gulf War vets based
- on VA data. This is further compounded by the fact that word
- inside the VA is that over a 100,000 additional Gulf War vet
- claims are in limbo in the backlog ( insider VISN Data with
- Presidential claims task force ). At the same time the VA GWI
- Research Advisory Committee seems to be having a hard time
- getting the VACOLS GWVIS 300,000+ database from BVA.
- Word in the system is that these numbers would effect a
- deployment into Iraq since the administration wont come clean
- on Gulf War illness.
- http://www.va.gov/pressrel/gwfs.htm
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/defense.pdf
- Page 14
- Section No. 515
- Also, it appears that Gulf War vets wanting to be sent the
- War-Related Illness and Injury Study Clinic are not able
- to do so since many VAMC's wont pay for the transportation
- to the 2 East Coast clinics. Helen Malaskiewicz is the senior
- person on this, and is aware of the problem. However, this was
- a ongoing problem I ran into with the earlier Gulf War Referral
- Centers - and they were more accessible than these clinics. It
- may take legislation to fix this problem, and all the while the
- clinic will produce skewed results since veterans cant get there.
- September 12th, 2002 - Gulf War Illness Not Stress-Linked
- As the United States readies for a potential second round
- of war in Iraq, British scientists say Gulf War illness from the
- first conflict isn't fallout from stress or other psychological trouble.
- September 13th, 2002 - Sen. Pat Roberts says he now believes
- that Navy Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, the first reported
- casualty of the Gulf War, is alive and being held in Iraq.
- September 16th, 2002 - MSNBC invites 6 Gulf War vets to
- speak on the show about the pending deployment to Iraq, but
- the interview shortens to 8 minutes of which they give DOD
- sympathizer Jan Megans the lions share - who does NOT
- represent the majority of Gulf War vets opinions. Kirt Love
- and Dave Seipel do at least get some comments in.
- MSNBC Sept 16 2002
- September 20th, 2002 - We meet with DHSD, and we have
- 5 groups represented with us. The interview shows that not
- only is DHSD no longer willing to answer questions, they basically
- want us to do their job for them. We may have gotten 19 letters
- answered from August 3rd, but it doesnt take much effort to tell
- us to go look to the other agencies for DHSD. Troops deploying
- into Iraq are as prepared as we were 12 years ago, which is to
- say allot of people are going to die.
- DHSD answer letter page
- October 9th 2002: "Although DOD is fielding new NBC equipment,
- troops currently deploying are leaving with the same equipment troops
- deployed into Iraq 12 years ago,” says Kirt P. Love, director of the
- Desert Storm Battle Registry and a Gulf War veteran.
- Veterans Groups Berate U.S. Biochemical Force Protection- Newmax.com
- October 10th 2002: The
Pentagon sprayed biological and chemical
agents off the coast of San Diego during the Cold War, part of a
series of previously undisclosed tests in several states that exposed
troops and perhaps thousands of civilians to the compounds,
defense officials said Wednesday.
"Most of these people didn't have a clue what they were part
of," said Kirt Love, a veterans advocate with the Desert Storm
Battle Registry who contended that in many cases only senior
officers were aware of the tests. "These were not safe agents
at the time."- Cold War Bio-Weapon Test Include California- La Times
- October 12th 2002:
- For 11 years, Kirt Love, who served in the Army during Operation
- Desert Storm, has been plagued by migraines, respiratory problems,
- and especially the memory of a vicious battle he witnessed between
- Allied forces and the Iraqi Republican Guard.
- Another war with Iraq, he says, “will be a bloodbath from start to finish.”
- Gulf War Veterans Emotions Mixed- Winchester Star
- October 22nd, 2002:
- Meeting between VA Execs and DSBR:
- Jeffery E. Phillips - Deputy Assistant Secretary for VA Public Affairs
- Mark Brown Ph.D. - Director of the VA's Environmental Agents Service
- Thomas G. Bowman - Acting Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs
- Kirt Love - Director, DSBR; Board member of DSJF
- Venus Hammack - Administrator, DSBR; Board member of DSJF
- The meeting goes surprisingly well as we cover a wide area of issues
- over a two hour period. The content of the meeting can be found at:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3647
- October 28th, 2002:
- VA RAC recommendations to Sec Anthony Principi
- Having had a year to produce a agenda and recommendations, the
- committee falls short of veteran expectations. Understaffed, under
- budgeted, and overloaded - the meeting shows these and other issues
- needing a broader pen stroke. The first day was unpleasant as the
- committee gave the audience the impression it didn't want input outside
- the committee ( audience participation ). When I asked VA PAO if this
- was intentional, they said "no". Day 2 seemed better as the audience
- got brief periods to interact, but day 3 interfering parties on the
- committee went back to monopolizing it with private agendas. They
- may have gotten a budget increase, but without a plan to reconstitute
- a way to get vets back in the door - who will find these research
- projects when they start. It doesnt look malicious in nature, it just
- looks like it will take a while for these people to find their footing.
- Much like other committees though, they havent really responded
- to veteran input - and veteran material addressed to them throughout
- the year is noticeably missing.
- Kirt Loves remarks
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3689
- Dave Seipel's remarks
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3711
- Venus Hammack's remarks:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3688
- VA Doubles Gulf War Research Funding - PR
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/3704
- VA RAC website
- http://www.va.gov/RAC-GWVI/
- November 6th 2002:
- Love is most worried, however, that no significant lessons have
- been learned from what happened in the first Gulf War, as the
- U.S. is poised to enter another war in the same region. "We
- are going to be repeating the same mistakes with Gulf War II,"
- he said.
- What's causing Gulf War Illness- Disaster News Network
- November 11th 2002:
- "Our government knows our equipment is not up to standards,"
- Love said. "This isn't going to be the same as before. This is going
- to be a bloody affair. They haven't shown us that they have learned
- anything."
- Iraqi Battleground Fiercer Veterans say- Washington Post
- Veterans Day - November 11th 2002
- As America prepares for war, we at DSBR cant help but feel a
- kind of dread as Gulf War II looms on the horizon. That next year
- about this time we will talk about these vets, and say to ourselves
- why did we go back. Still, today we salute Americas soldiers and
- thank them for their service to their country - all 24 million.
- November 15th 2002:
- We met again with VA Execs at the HQ across from the Whitehouse.
- Progress is slow as they consider our materials carefully, and we
- stress that the RAC isn't visible when it comes to working content.
- Also, it appears that VA likes our idea of a SHAD registry like the
- Persian Gulf Registry. In the mail we get the DHSD response letter
- to our September 20th meeting, and find it necessary to schedule
- another meeting in December to address this, and Gulf War II, SHAD.
- November 15th 2002 DOD - DHSD response Letters to Sept 20th
- December 7th 2002:
- Venus Hammack and Kirt Love have a interview with French ARTE TV
- as they explain how they do not agree with President George Bush
- on the coming assault of Iraq. Its not about National Security, its
- about economics - and that's not what the military was created for.
- December 10th 2002:
- As we talked with Mike Kilpatrick, we found ourselves repeating
- messages from the last 2 meetings. DHSD is NOT answering our
- questions to our satisfaction. The biggest issue we still are holding
- to them, changing the words in many of the narratives from "unlikely"
- to "possible". This would help with Title 38 issues toward service
- connection in Gulf War vet claims. Number 2 is the 3 year old issue
- of the AFIP's Gulf War tissue vaults not being cataloged for researchers.
- Troop readiness for the Gulf War II is upsetting, since we are NOT
- ready. There's more, but we discuss it on our mail list.
- December 17th 2002:
- 7:45pm MSNBC, Frank Luntz - Iraq Smoking Gun
- Kirt Love comments:
- It is not our job as the WORLD PEACEKEEPERS to police Iraq.
- We are going to waste upwards of a $100 billion on this war when
- we don't even take care of our people here at home.
- December 22nd, 2002:
- Associated Press - Susan Gamboa
- Sarin studies may offer clues to Gulf War illnesses
- Low levels of sarin nerve gas can affect behavior and organ
- functions in laboratory animals at least a month after exposure,
- according to new research that may provide clues to the
- mysterious illnesses suffered by veterans of the Persian
- Gulf war.
- December 30th, 2002:
- Disaster News Network - Travis Dunn
- Studies track Gulf War illness -- but too late?
- Recent studies investigating the
effects of low levels of
- sarin nerve gas on animals
appear to confirm the theory
- that some forms of Gulf War
illness may have been
- caused by the exposure of U.S. troops to nerve gas.
- December 30th, 2002:
- Die Weltwoche Magazine - Martin Killian
- The battle of the veterans
- Numerous
Americans, who fought in the Gulf War, warn
- of a
military strike against Saddam Hussein. Who are the
- people,
which the Iraqi Tyrant actually loose will want,
- but, face
the government Bush with highest skepticism?
- January 15th, 2003:
- FDA partial response to 1999 FOIA F00-20757
- Anthrax Vaers report of Anthrax Vaccine
- 674 pages of peoples adverse reaction to the Anthrax
- Vaccinations from 1990 to 2000. 3.4 megs
- Anthrax Vaers report of Anthrax Vaccine part 2
- 125 pages of peoples adverse reaction to the Anthrax
- Vaccinations from 2000 to 2002. 256K
- January 22nd, 2003:
- 7:45pm MSNBC, Frank Luntz - Iraq Smoking Gun
- Kirt Love comments:
- Full disclosure, and that the information is old and has
- not been disclosed since the last war. Other nations
- do NOT support this war. That
the evidence is NOT there.
I said that Americans should have full disclosure, but its - more than likely DOD wont since they didnt last time
- 12 years ago.
- January 24th, 2003:
- 7:45pm MSNBC, Frank Luntz - Should we go in without the UN
- Kirt Love comments:
- This is a economic issue of how we keep OPEC on the edge.
- This is about the price of oil. Saddam is in a box, he cant
- travel to EuroDisney.
- January 24, 2003
- DSBR signs a global UN petition against War in Iraq.
- We do not want American soldiers to die needlessly,
- later we find the Pentagon has ordered 77,000 body
- bags for the troops in the Gulf.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/4386
- January 24, 2003
- DSBR sent a joint letter with the NGWRC to Sec Anthony
- Principi on Sarin Research on January 15th, and in the news
- today Sec Anthony Principi comments on Sarin research.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/4397
- January 28th, 2003:
- 9:00 pm MSNBC, Hardball - President State of the Union Address
- This is a economic issue of how we keep OPEC on the edge.
- This is about the price of oil. Gas prices will go up as the
- economy goes down. Venus calls President Bush
- "Cheney's Puppet".
- February 3rd, 4th, 2003:
- VA RAC - A year later and a dollar short
- Its so upsetting to watch what has become little more than
- a small monopolized program that will fall short of it potential.
- 2 days of twisting in the wind, and now where does it go.
- Venus points out her view of the committee
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulflink/message/4513
- February 5th, 2003
- We met with DHSD, and asked for a follow up to our past
- meetings. We were asked not to record this meeting as
- Mike Kilpatrick's staff scrambled for materials from the last
- meeting. They had little for us.
- Overview of the meeting and documents
- DHSD provided a really lame response letter to our four months of questions
- during our meetings with them, so this May 2nd meeting with them was
- more frustrating because it wasn't reassuring that troops coming home
- from Iraqi Freedom would get what they bargained for.
- May 2nd DHSD review page with response letters
- We continue here at DSBR
to ask questions, and ask that you join
our discussion group at GulfLINK Mail List. Not to worry, by joining
our list you will see that OSAGWI will also see your message as well -
they ( and many other government agencies ) monitor us daily for news
and updates. -
Sincerely
Kirt P. Love
Disabled Gulf War Veteran - Webmaster
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