I’m not THAT old. lol
We’re supposed to do IPPT until end of reservist,
which is I think 55/60?
Ironically, as a geneticist, I’m actually well aware of Agent
Orange. What’s even more ironic is that pure Agent Orange is
actually safe, where the US screwed up in is QC. It was due to
chirality. cis-form Agent Orange was a safe defoliant. trans-form
Agent Orange is horrifyingly mutagenic. All the Agent Orange they
used were a mix of both forms and they never thought that such
closely related chemicals could have such drastically different
effects. And no, they can’t be sued for negligence, negligence
needs 3 things to be proven 1) Duty of care (i.e it’s their job to
take care of the Vietnamese kids-possible) 2) Negligence of care
(i.e they knew, but ignored it-possible failure point) and the
final kicker 3) All resonable due process (i.e they did everything
normally done to check-this is where they can’t get sued, they did
all the tests, just needed ESP to know that different
forms gave such different effects.)
Well, unless I'm mistaken, you've been out of NSF about 15 years
ago. Haha I wish I had a chance to do some field camp. End of
reservist is 45/55 but MR will come earlier, unless as an officer
you wanna voluntarily extend your duties and pick up LTC(NS).
I guess Agent Orange cases would be treated the same as
asbestosis (also widely used in the military)? It was not apparent
to anyone what would happen years down the road.
So, any one else served in the artillery and has mutated
offspring to hide in the basement? Although the rest of us can't
afford basements.
