Ex-DAFB commander says troops used as guinea pigs

[molly]

Military denies that illness of pilots, crew caused by squalene
By LEE WILLIAMS and HIRAN RATNAYAKE
The News Journal
10/10/2004

A former Dover Air Force Base commander says military officials used his troops as guinea pigs in illegal medical experiments under the government's controversial anthrax vaccination program.

After some of his troops in their 20s and 30s began developing arthritis, neurological problems, memory loss and incapacitating migraine headaches, Col. Felix Grieder took a drastic step. In 1999, he halted the vaccination program in Dover, a move he said ended his military career. The decorated Air Force colonel has spent the past five years trying to discover the truth about the vaccine program in Dover, where he commanded 4,000 troops.

"In my opinion, there was illegal medical experimentation going on," says Grieder, who lives in Texas.

Grieder has interviewed scores of his former pilots and crew who
they have had life-altering reactions to the vaccine.

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Government officials have acknowledged that the Department of Defense secretly tested squalene on human beings in Thailand. Grieder believes they did the same in Dover.

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/10/10exdafbcommander.html

[jdj]

1. good article, thanks for posting

[Karenina]

2. Support the troops...

Use, abuse, discard. Lather, rinse, repeat.
And if YOU, Joe Schmo, got a problem wit it you'll NEVER work in this town again.