CarePackage Supply List For Our Warfighters

I compiled this care package list to give idea's and try to make it easy on you, while providing a detailed list of all the supplies that are needed and most asked for. So here's the compiled list,.. It may seem over-whelming I know, there is a lot listed here. Just keep in mind you can turn this into a team effort between your family, friends and even co-workers.

Gulf War Illness - In Depth

 
GULF WAR ILLNESS by @ArmyInfantryMom

In the fall of 1990 more than a half million US Troops headed over-sea's to the Persian Gulf but with the fear of Sodom Hussein using chemical and biological weapons the government had decided they would protect our troops by implementing medical precautionary. These precautionary included Service Members to take pyridostigmine bromide (PB) pills and receive a series of Anthrax vaccines.

The PB pills were to protect them if they were exposed to nerve gas agents such as soman and sarin, however the pills were experimental !!! Keep in mind at least half of those who served took them throughout their deployments, but was used even more by the Army personnel.

The Gulf War Veterans were also exposed to many other materials considered dangerous, some occupational and some battlefield related, in fact there were so many they called it a "Toxic Soup." In this toxic soup was, burning oil wells, depleted uranium, organophosphate pesticides, jet and rocket fuels and the leaking of Iraqi chemical weapons after collation air strikes .

Important things we can do,... is find the answers that many Veterans and their families has been asking. For too too long, these questions fell on deaf ears, causing more unnecessary suffering to those affected by Gulf War Illness.

Gulf War Illness: Remember Those Who Served,.. One out of four that served in the first Gulf War have Gulf War Illness!!! Downloaded by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (July 17, 2012)