On 1/14/2014 10:31 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/14/14, 10:21 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:52:03 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

...but this risk seems far above and beyond the call of duty.


70+ USS Ronald Reagan Crew Members, Half Suffering From Cancer, to Sue
TEPCO For Fukushima Radiation Poisoning

After U.S. Navy sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the 2011
Fukushima disaster in Japan for four days, many returned to the U.S.
with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, brain tumors and more.

At least 71 sailors—many in their 20s—reported radiation sickness and
will file a lawsuit against Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which
operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant.

The men and women accuse TEPCO of downplaying the danger of nuclear
radiation on the site. The water contaminated the ship’s supply, which
led to crew members drinking, washing their bodies and brushing their
teeth with contaminated water. Paul Garner, an attorney representing 51
sailors, said at least half of the 70-plus sailors have some form of
cancer.

“We’re seeing leukemia, testicular cancer and unremitting gynecological
bleeding requiring transfusions and other intervention,” Garner told New
York Post.

Senior Chief Michael Sebourn, a radiation-decontamination officer
assigned to test the aircraft carrier, said that radiation levels
measured 300 times higher than what was considered safe at one point.
Meanwhile sailors like Lindsay Cooper have contrasted their initial and
subsequent feelings upon seeing and tasting metallic “radioactive snow”
caused by freezing Pacific air that mixed with radioactive debris.

“We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow!” Cooper said. “My
thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month
and then gain it back the next. My menstrual cycle lasts for six months
at a time, and I cannot get pregnant.

“It’s ruined me.”

Cooper said the Reagan has a multimillion-dollar radiation-detection
system, but the crew couldn’t get it activated quickly enough.

“And then we couldn’t go anywhere,” she said. “Japan didn’t want us in
port, Korea didn’t want us, Guam turned us away. We floated in the water
for two and a half months.”

San Diego Judge Janis L. Sammartino dismissed the initial suit in late
November, but Garner and a group of attorneys plan to refile on Jan. 6,
according to Fox 5 San Diego.

Though publications like The Washington Times have wondered if the Navy
and/or National Security Agency might have known about the conditions
the sailors were heading into two years ago, Garner and the attorneys
say the lawsuit is solely directed at TEPCO.

“We’re suing this foreign corporation because they are doing business in
America,” co-counsel Charles Bonner. “Their second largest office
outside of Tokyo is in Washington, D.C.

“This foreign corporation caused harm to American rescuers, and they did
it in ways that give rise to jurisdiction here in this country.”

http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/27/ronal...ima-radiation/



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No, the president is willing to take risks with military personnel.
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Hope you're having a spectacular day!


Well, that is true of just about every president.


It's not just presidents. Congress in general has a lot to say about
the use of the military.

Someone posted a picture on Facebook recently of a badly injured US
Marine. The text read in part:

"No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women (like
this) serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives
protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay while Politicians hold
their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected
by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after
serving one term. It just does not make any sense.


Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United
States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or
Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the
Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the
citizens of the United States."

I could vote for that!