- Hundreds of British soldiers are expected to be sacked
because wounds or injuries suffered in Iraq have left them unfit for frontline
service, The Herald can reveal.
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- Up to 2000 veterans have been permanently medically downgraded
and many are being assessed for compulsory discharge on the grounds that
they are no longer capable of fulfilling operational roles.
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- The Ministry of Defence said 79 personnel had been discharged
on medical grounds by September last year.
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- Although the MoD says it does not have up to date statistics
for the number of troops permanently downgraded as a result of tours in
Iraq, sources in its medical service say the total is close to 2000.
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- The total for last year was 1669, of whom 468 were downgraded
due to combat wounds or accidents, 587 for "musculo-skeletal disorders",
140 for mental and behavioural disorders, and 87 for respiratory complaints
aggravated or caused by the desert climate. Army medical service sources
said the number diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome is more than
800. The Veterans' Agency, an independent executive branch of the MoD,
confirmed 263 soldiers have applied for disablement pensions and 148 applications
have been approved.
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- Soldiers permanently downgraded are assessed to see whether
places are available to employ them in less physically-demanding capacities.
The usual alternative is discharge.
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- Shaun Rusling, vice-chairman of the National Gulf Veterans'
and Families' Association, said: "The number applying for a war pension
on health grounds between 2003 and now is five times greater than the level
for the two years after the 1991 Gulf war.
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- "Someone in power should be asking why so many are
facing what is effectively the sack after serving their country faithfully
in increasingly dangerous circumstances."
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- "Someone in power should be asking why so many are
facing what is effectively the sack after serving their country faithfully
in increasingly dangerous circumstances."
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- Someone (everyone) should be asking some questions about
total body and mental fluorosis due to exposure to fluorides by the troups.
The fluorides attack not only the "musculoskeletal system," but
also the brain, the mind, and everything in the body.
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- Fluorides were known, in the 1930s to block thyroid functioning.
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- http://www.rense.com/general63/flou.htm
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- http://harris.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=6881
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- http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Be/key.html
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- Beryllium metal is available commercially and so would
never normally be made in the laboratory. Its extraction from ores is complex.
The mineral beryl, [Be3Al2(SiO3)6] is the most important source of beryllium.
It is roasted with sodimu hexafluorosilicate, Na2SiF6, at 700°C to
form beryllium fluoride. This is water soluble and the beryllium may be
precipitated as the hydroxide Be(OH)2 by adjustment of the pH to 12.
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- ....many factories nationwide that produced parts for
atomic weapons, nuclear energy facilities and missile guidance systems
during the Cold War.
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- Beryllium was used for many of those projects. Machining
the exotic metal created a toxic dust that can cause some people to develop
a severe lung disease that is often fatal if it is not treated.
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- http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/11224760.htm
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