[ RadSafe ] Re: DU

[Dlind49 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/8/05 11:31:30 AM Central Daylight Time, 
bobcherry at cox.net writes:

<< 
 >>

Bob---- As the Army Radiation safety officer who was responsible for 
radiation safety during Gulf War 1 and for many years afterwards and who knows AR 
700-48, TB 9-1300-278, and LTG Reake's April 29 , 2004 order along with all of the 
others exist you have an obligation since you started this nonsense to help 
us ensure full compliance with AR 700-48 and  TB 9-1300-278, that require 
medical care and thorough environmental remediation are complied with and all of 
the orders beginning with the June 1991 3RD MEDCOM  CDR order requiring medical 
care are complied with immediately.   Today, even though you are retired  you 
inserted yourself to stymie / stop our efforts to ensure compliance with 
mandated medical care and environmental remediation requirements.   Now you and 
your buddies at the Pentagon have ethical, moral, and legal obligations to ensure 
these orders and regulations are complied with without delay.  SO I ASK YOU 
ONCE MORE WIL YOU PUBLICALLY ENDIORSE AND SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS TO ENSURE MEDICAL 
CARE IS PROVIDED TO ALL Du CASUALTIES AND WILL YOU HELP US ENSURE 
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IS CLEANED UP AS REWQUIRED BY ar 700-48, TB 9-1300-278, and 
all of the orders mandating medical care?  

LTC Skinner and CENTCOM PAO will you also ensure medical care is provided  
and environmental remediation is completed?

Colonel Robert Eng. LTG Peake assigned you as his reprentative to ensure 
medical care is provided in his April 29, 2004 order. Will you ensure medical care 
is provide to all DU causlties- that includes all civilains and all military 
perosnnel?

President George Bush: As Commander in Chief will you ensure all Department 
of Defense personnel comply with AR 700-48, TB 9-1300-278, and all of the 
previous and current orders?  

Please reply.  

thank you,
doug rokke

once more.


Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action
By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair 
Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
July 12, 2004


While U.S. and British military personnel continue using uranium munitions-
America's and England's own "dirty bombs" U.S. Army, U.S. Department 
of Energy, and U.S. Department of Defense officials continue their 
unrelenting personal attacks against me, a lawyer who serves as a United Nations Special 
Rapporteur, physicians who are conducting research and providing medical 
care, nurses, political leaders, and others who have spoke out regarding the 
documented adverse health and environmental effects of depleted uranium munitions. 
They want to disrupt our efforts to ensure compliance with mandated medical 
care and environmental remediation requirements because they want to be always 
able to use effective depleted uranium munitions during combat.  These same 
officials still continue to deny that there are any adverse effects to avoid 
liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - 
depleted uranium. They arrogantly refuse to comply with their own regulations 
and directives. They willfully ignore existing U.S. Department of Defense 
(DOD) directives that require prompt and effective medical care Be provided to 
"all" exposed individuals [Medical Management of Unusual  Depleted Uranium 
Casualties, DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93 and Medical Management of  Army personnel 
Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical  Command 29 April 
2004)].  They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive Contamination as 
required by Army Regulation- AR 700-48: "Management of Equipment Contaminated 
With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities" (Headquarters, Department Of 
The Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002) and U.S. Army  Technical \  
Bulletin- TB 9-1300-278:  "Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage, And 
Transportation Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions Or Armor Which Contain 
Depleted Uranium" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington,  D.C., JULY 
1996).

Army Regulation-AR 700-48 requires that:
(1) "Military personnel "identify, segregate, isolate, secure, and  label all 
RCE" (radiologically contaminated equipment).
(2) "Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be implemented 
as soon as possible."
(3) "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of  through 
burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in place, or abandonment" and
(4) "All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be surveyed, 
packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released IAW Technical Bulletin 
9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48" (Note: Maximum exposure limits are specified  in Appendix 
F).

The past and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive 
components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment, and releases of 
industrial, medical, research facility radioactive materials have resulted in 
unacceptable exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed as required by 
U.S. Army Regulation  700-48 and should include releases of all radioactive 
materials resulting from military operations.  The extent of adverse health and 
environmental effects of uranium weapons 
contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and 
sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including Vieques, Puerto 
Rico, Colonie, New York, and Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana. Therefore 
medical care must be provided by the United States Department of Defense 
officials to all individuals affected by the manufacturing, testing, or use of uranium 
munitions. Thorough environmental remediation also must be completed without 
further delay.

In conclusion: the President of the United States- George W. Bush and 
The Prime Minister of Great Britain-Tony Blair must acknowledge and accept
responsibility for willful use of illegal uranium munitions- their own 
"dirty bombs"- resulting in adverse health and environmental effects.
President Bush and Prime Minister Blair also should order:
1. medical care for all casualties,
2. thorough environmental remediation,
3. immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance 
with medical care and environmental remediation requirements,
4. and ban the future use of depleted uranium munitions.

References:

http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html

http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html

http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html