RE: DU Info

["Charles Picco" <c.picco@mail.zinnianet.net>]

Apparently he does not really think there is problem.  According to his

"vitae", he was the director of the Edwin R. Bradley Radiological

Laboratories, Fort McClellan, Alabama; 1996-1997 (from experience, I know

this laboratory is basically a demonstration laboratory to teach Army

personnel the basics of radiation i.e. alpha, beta, gamma).  As director,

according to his vitae he helped develop the following training materials:



  Rokke, D.; Shank, J.; Battle, E. and others. (1995) Depleted Uranium

Project Training support packages: Tier I: Awareness, Tier II: Battlefield

Damage Assessment and Repair, and Tier III: Chemical Corps.  Department of

the Army. U.S. Army Chemical School, Edwin R. Bradley Radiological

Laboratories, Fort McClellan, Alabama.



These training materials can be found at:



http://www.wood.army.mil/84chem/HHC/TTD/du.htm  note: the US Army Chemical

School has moved from Fort McClellan to Fort Leonard Wood, MO.



According to these training materials, there is virtually no health affects

due to DU radioactivity although they do correctly protray the potential

chemical toxicity of DU.



Note:  These material were rewritten in 1999 and he apparently worked on

them in 1997.  But, I can be pretty confident that the content of the

material did not change much.



Mr. Rokke's vitae can be found at:



http://traprockpeace.org/RokkeVitae.html



Charles





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[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Jacobus, John

(NIH/OD/ORS)

Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:04 PM

To: 'Otto G. Raabe'; Charles Picco; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: RE: DU Info





Quesetion for the list:  Why is Doug Rokke giving these talks?  Do you think

he really believes there is a problem?



-- John

John P. Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  jenday1@msn.com





-----Original Message-----

From: Otto G. Raabe [mailto:ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU]

Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 2:19 PM

To: Charles Picco; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: DU Info





At 04:35 PM 12/18/02 -0800, Charles Picco wrote:

>For those of you interested in hearing Doug Rokke's talk and would like a

>good laugh:

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December 20, 2002

Davis, CA



After having heard his talk when Rokke was here in Davis earlier last

month, I can't laugh because it was sad to see him enthrall his audience

with a steady supply of half-truths, misrepresentations, and factual

errors. Although Rokke claims to be a "health physicist" and implies that

he has a doctorate in Physics, he is actually trained in "education

methodology", seems to know only a little about health physics, and is

currently a substitute teacher at a middle school in Illinois. He was never

"head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project on Gulf War Casualties and

Depleted Uranium", although he apparently worked as a military liaison to

the contractor hired by the DOD to do DU cleanup.

. . .

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