Sick Desert Storm vets denied benefits

[IndianaGreen]

Sick Desert Storm vets denied benefits

Posted: Nov 11, 2009 4:53 PM EST
Updated: Nov 11, 2009 5:13 PM EST

Chapman/13 Investigates

Indianapolis - Their contributions have gone unrecognized, despite top secret missions and battle time service. Now, sick and dying, these men and women are being refused Veterans Affairs benefits because of a military technicality.

Prepping for the "sandbox," Air Force Reservists ready a C141 transport plane for a mission to the Persian Gulf. They are responsible for transporting precious cargo into war zones, both troops and their loaded equipment.

In January 1991, they helped drop 500,000 US troops into the desert to take Iraqi forces by storm.

Lt. Colonel Steve Avery of Indianapolis was one of their pilots.

"My crew was one of the first in Desert Storm. We flew a special elite group in and air dropped them during the beginning of the war," Avery explained.

He and fellow crew members from the 707th Air Squadron out of Charleston, South Carolina, also shuttled out scud missiles, spent nuclear tank shells covered in uranium dust, and who knows what else?

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=11487219

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. This doesn't surprise me in the least

:grr:

[Karenina]

2. . .

[winyanstaz]

3. K & R.......come on du.....support this post and support our troops...

This makes me sick to see.
I hope every family with a loved one thinking about going into the service gets a good look at this and thinks twice
If we really supported our troops..we would end these unnecessary wars and wars based on lies and nation building and we would bring our troops home safe NOW!

[Recursion]

4. Ah, Desert Storm...

The war that also launched bin Ladin's war against the US. It's the gift that keeps on ramming us up the ass with a hot poker. May Poppy Bush burn in hell.

[era veteran]

5. The new agent orange & bug poison too

Just like all our wars the VA will cover up or just wait until they are dead. The VA is set up to discourage treatment. I've said it before Fuck the VA. More federal cops at VA hospitals than doctors. There is a 9th circle of hell for the Bush family. Depleted uranium rounds should be outlawed. I was a tanker and you always look for an edge but the old rounds were very lethal too. Just plain stupid.

[IndianaGreen]

6. Let's not forget our atomic tests veterans

They were lied to by the scientists and the military, and they have suffered horribly from their exposure to radiation.

[winyanstaz]

8. yes..it is killing them slowly and in horrible ways...

the du is poisoning the whole earth too.
My husband died a slow lingering death due to all the times he was sprayed with agent orange...he fought for every breath for nine long years.
He was afraid to claim agent orange because he thought they might take his pension away.
I am glad he is out of pain and suffering now but I miss him terribly.

[TexasObserver]

7. Kicked but too late to Recommend.