More Than 600 Reported Chemical Exposure in Iraq, Pentagon Acknowledges - NYTimes.com
Having failed to act on the military's own data about troops
potentially exposed to nerve or blister agents in Iraq, the Pentagon
says it will now expand outreach to veterans. "It's too little, too
late," said one former Army sergeant whose platoon was exposed to
sulfur-mustard agent in 2008. http://nyti.ms/1xbpI4B - private - private
Read The Times investigation, "The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons": http://nyti.ms/1wB9MJJ
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at a news conference last week. A review he ordered uncovered the reports of exposure.
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