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07/31/2003 Archived Entry: "Great. Just great."
Great. Just great.
Besides the gunfire, RPG, and grenades being dropped from bridges into HMVs, now we have a mystery illness killing our soldiers.
An hourlong phone call Monday afternoon with the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office brought little closure to the parents of fallen soldier Spc. Joshua Neusche.
Mark and Cynthia Neusche said they spoke with Col. Robert DeFraites, the office's senior preventive-medicine specialist. Throughout the conversation, the couple hoped to learn what exactly killed their oldest boy on July 12.That answer never came.
"We didn't find out as much as we'd like to," Mark Neusche said after the teleconference at Fort Leonard Wood. "We learned a lot of stuff is still pending."
Josh Neusche — a Missouri National Guardsman with the 203rd Engineer Battalion — died in a German hospital after falling into a coma about 12 days earlier. The casualty report his parents received in the mail Monday says the 20-year-old college freshman succumbed to complications due to respiratory failure.
The colonel told the Neusches tissue samples taken from their son's liver, kidneys and lungs were sent for testing to the pathology lab at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Neusche said DeFraites advised it would take several weeks to learn of the test results.
Spc. Neusche, of Montreal, Mo., was among 12 soldiers in the Middle East who suffered pneumonia so severe they were placed on respirators, DeFraites said. All but one were treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Neusche and another unnamed soldier died after contracting the illness.
More here. Although there have only been two (or maybe three) deaths from whatever this is, it seems that there are nearly 20 kids infected with it.
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lets hope its just another symptom of uranium poisoning. of course if it is, it will stay inconclusive forever most likely, so they dont have to give anyone disability benefits. when gulf war 2 syndrome starts i dont know how they can deny it though. if its not DU poisoning, then we are really screwed, because they will bring it back to us.... yea!, now we can all die because of this stupid war
Posted by justin @ 08/01/2003 10:04 AM NY
