Should US Military Personnel Be Allowed to Wear Mask to Protect Against Fine Dust Pollution in South Korea?
The US military really needs to look at this because the fine dust in Korea is horrible for servicemembers to breathing in considering the amount of time many of them spend outside:
With much of South Korea smothered in record levels of fine dust, the streets are full of people wearing masks as protection from the punishing air pollution.
Stars & Stripes
Most American soldiers don’t have that option — at least when they’re in uniform. The Air Force permits masks when pollution hits a certain level.
Army regulations bar soldiers from wearing the masks, which cover noses and mouths, unless they have a certified medical condition that merits an exception.
That has caused concern among many soldiers and their loved ones as much of South Korea has endured several days of dense pollution that irritates eyes and makes breathing difficult.
“I feel like my husband should be able to wear a mask. I really don’t like that,” Army wife Alexandra Jackson said as she waited for dinner at the Yongsan Garrison food court.
You can read more at the link.
Osan allows it for AF personnel
All that NBC training…
…poor saps out in the August sun in MOPP 4.
Then when there is a true need for protection from a toxic environment in a real-world setting, nobody can make a timely command decision.
Go USFK!
같이 우유부단하다!
Add it to the list of Agent Orange, Burn Pitts and other environmental pollutant disability claims that GIs will be denied when their health starts failing.
VA, “Your lung condition is not service related.”
Flyingsword, Griffiss AFB was a Superfund site and they told me my cancer was unrelated. Of course, it probably was.
And someone needs to do a study about whether smothing damage is made more worse by breathing mold spores in the barracks or
toxic industrial waste from Chinadust in Korea.How did “smoking” change to “smothing”?
Dang. I will probably need to stop using my phone to post.
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Set, you big tease. Smothing and breathing [hard] in the barracks — I was getting excited…keep going.
Leave it to Merck to develop a (useless) vaccine for a new market, Yellow Dust Disease. Lobby the living hell out of it to the Pentagon who will get snookered by the impressive (but totally fabricated) statistics, and mandate it for all USFK personnel who will be made sicker by the vaccine ingredients than the actual Yellow Dust. Ya know, following the same model as the anthrax shot. Ever wonder why the Korean military doesn’t administer the anthrax shot to their own troops yet it’s required for us?
Mcgeehee, probably the same reason a medical company commander was relieved during the First Gulf war after he decided if one nerve agent pill is good (not FDA approved and I was told until Desert Shield never tested on humans) then two must be better. Soldiers got very sick, at least one died and a close friend until the day he died had vision problems, which made his work as an LPN very difficult and stopped him from getting his BSN. The FDA allows the military to use soldiers as test rats for new unproven and unknown medications, seems the military has an exemption to the ethics laws that hamper civilian labs.
McGeeHee, in my defense, I was living in sin off-base, against orders…