US sailors sick from Fukushima

[Flesh Thorn]

When the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts.

But months later, while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse. And his fiance and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym, who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging.

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[Jim]

I think we have not yet seen the full impact from that nuclear disaster. I have thought that the Japanese government as well as the electric company went to great lengths to cover up the full extent of the accident.

[Slowpoke]

Well, all of us ''old folks'' remember how long it took our government to fess up to the effects of Agent Orange, let's hope these poor Squids don't have to go through the same thing. Our government sent those ships there in great haste to aid an ally..... knowing what kind of shit they were sending those poor bastards into.

Anyone that believes our government cares about our troops too much to do that should harken back to WW II and....... Hey let's put a bunch of GI's next to this atomic bomb and see what happens to them when we set it off from our safe bunker.......