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Excerpt from Special Full Committee Hearing on Health Problems of Persian Gulf Veterans: Hearing Before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, November 9, 1993
Colonel smith. I was a member of the Kuwaiti Task Force, and was fortunate enough to have had a physical exam in November, about 2 weeks before I went to serve in Operation Desert Storm. The summary physician made the comment that I was surprisingly free of any problems in that most men that are over 50 have got some kind of a problem; hyperglycemia or hyperlipemia, or high blood pressure or prostatitis or diabetes or something. And I went over there (southwest Asia) absolutely problem free.
When I came back in June, 1991, I didn't really know that I had a problem when I got off the plane, because I was never really sick while in the Persian Gulf other than the respiratory problems that I had from all the smoke. I was in Kuwait City. The first 6 weeks we couldn't differentiate night from day. It was so smokey we couldn't tell the sun from the moon. And it was 16 days before we had enough water to take our first shower and then put on our dirty uniforms. There was not enough water for laundry for other 2 weeks.
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