-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart Another Tragic Air Force Anthrax Story ARTICLE 5 VOICE OF THE GRUNT 8-9-99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9-16-99 SUMMARY: A pilot relates a story that could be happening all over the country with our remaining pilots. This stuff is just wonderful isn't it? __________ By An Air Warrior It's important to keep the real life experiences in this discussion about the anthrax vaccine. It keeps things in the proper perspective. First, let me say that what I am writing is of my own accord and does not represent the views of the Air Force. Also, it must be made clear that the following is simply an observation of my experiences over the last two weeks and is not intended to persuade any member of the armed forces to disobey any lawful orders. I am an active duty Air Force pilot stationed at an Eastern AFB. I arrived on station just a little over two weeks ago. On my first day I met a reserve pilot at lunch and ask how things were in his unit. He then went on to explain how a large amount of pilots had resigned due to the fear of the anthrax vaccine. I asked him if their fears were backed by fact. He used himself for an example. Since he's received the vaccine, he has experienced headaches, dizzy spells, short term memory loss, to name a few symptoms. I assumed he was grounded and then he said that the medical group had given him a waiver to keep flying. He was scheduled for an MRI to rule out a brain tumor. "How could this be?", I thought. "How can he be fit to fly?" The next day I ran into an old friend of mine who was leaving the base. He was a reserve pilot who had resigned. He acknowledged the moral problem and stated that there was a real threat of an adverse reaction to the vaccine and he just couldn't risk it. The following day I checked into the squadron and spoke with the first active duty pilot I ran into about the anthrax vaccine. That pilot was grounded, and still is to this day. That pilot has sustained some serious internal damage with an unknown prognosis. The overall diagnosis is an autoimmune disorder. A couple of days later I met another pilot and asked him if he had received the vaccine. He acknowledged that he had. He described becoming very ill afterwards and to this day had problems with short-term memory loss. He also said that his wife had recently became extremely ill. They both went off base to get a blood analysis. He said that his test showed heavy traces of anthrax and some traces of Ebola. His wife's blood showed traces of anthrax. How could this be? He has never been to an area where Ebola is prevalent. And his wife has never received the anthrax vaccine. The next day I recorded the names of the crewmembers in my squadron who were grounded according to our scheduling board. I called five of them that night. The first guy was a pilot. He had just been released from the hospital. He told me that shortly after he had received the vaccine he developed cysts on numerous places on the inside and outside of his body, to include his heart. He had undergone surgery to remove some of the cysts and had been hooked up to an IV for six weeks. To his knowledge no VAERS report had been filed on his case. The next guy I spoke with had received the vaccine and was being treated for an autoimmune disorder, but believed it was from job related stress and not the vaccine. Fair enough, I thought, but how coincidental. The next fellow I spoke with was grounded also. After the fourth vaccine he began to experience diverse symptoms which included chronic bone/joint pain, chronic fatigue, and a loss of ability to concentrate. He is being cross-trained into another, less demanding career field. Another pilot I spoke with has experienced severe chronic bone/joint pain and he was also grounded. The pain is so bad he can't climb the steps to get into the airplane. Although this disability surfaced after he received the vaccine, at this time he doesn't attribute it as being the cause. However, as a precaution, he has had his blood tested for the autoimmune disorder. It came back negative. Again, I have only been on base a short time and with a little bit of effort I have uncovered what I consider a nightmare. I have yet to talk to the other 17 crewmembers in my squadron that are on the "grounded" list. My guess is that the anthrax vaccine will be considered a causal factor for a significant portion of these people. I was told that one of these men had a seizure last week. Another fact worth mentioning is that the chief of our immunization clinic took the vaccine and went into anaphylactic shock. We need to ensure that safety is appropriately addressed and NOW. This is the sermon that every commander I have served under has preached. Something is wrong. Way wrong. However, I cannot speak out in a way that civilians can without facing a court martial. ARTICLE 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *******MAC NOTES****** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By Robert L. McMahon 9-6-99 Last week's "Anthrax Issue" was rather timely. No sooner had I put it together then the September '99 issue of U.S. Naval Institute's PROCEEDINGS arrived and in it's POINTS OF INTEREST column, was an article by Tom Philpott titled "The Anthrax Controversy". Accompanying the article was a picture of SECDEF Cohen receiving "one of the six shots necessary for the anthrax vaccine". The responses to this issue have been coming in fast and furious too. Plenty of you have sent in articles and websites that we will provide to you in a week or two. However, I would like to say something regarding a quote or two from the PROCEEDINGS article. Mr. Philpott writes about an editorial written by Tobias Naegele for the independent newspaper The Navy Times and the subsequent reactions from the SECDEF and General Shelton, USA. His editorial was roundly criticized as a "significant disservice" to our country's military. But then the author weighs in with this "stunner" from Lt. General Ronald Blanck, USA, the Army's Surgeon General, "Long term health studies have not been conducted because 'vaccines don't cause long-term problems,' Blanck said". I'm sure that some of you out there are doctors, nurses and other qualified medical personnel. Would you agree that death is a long-term effect from a vaccine? As parents we still sign waivers for our children to be inoculated don't we? That's because vaccines can cause long-term effects. Lt. Gen. Blanck was also quoted as saying that Mr. Naegele's editorial "follows no logic and makes no sense". Well here's something for all of you to logically think about. Why is the military giving a vaccine for "hair born" anthrax when a weaponized delivery will be for aerosol spores meant to be sucked into the lungs; from what I have read, these are two completely different things (pathogens?). An analogy would be wearing a "helmet and body armor" to protect you from grenade fragments, but you've found yourself on a beach under fire from the Iowa's main batteries. That Kevlar "hat and shirt" are gonna be pretty useless. Keep the channel on anthrax open and keep firing away. A follow-up issue is brewing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freeyellow.com:8080/members7/rlmcmahon/ DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! 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