Sentences with phrase «deployed gulf war»

Veterans who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan were more likely to have MSI than nondeployed personnel — but their risk was still not as high as in deployed Gulf War veterans.

Not exact matches

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

The CIA has confirmed that Mike Pompeo, that agency's current director and current nominee for Secretary of State, was not deployed in the first Gulf War, despite widespread statements that he served in that conflict.

G, I served over 27 years, nearly 5 years deployed to the Persian Gulf region for the war effort.

«More than 250,000 troops, or approximately 25 % of those deployed during the first Persian Gulf War, have been diagnosed with Gulf War Illness (GWI).

The appalling consequences of the military technology deployed in the Gulf War 12 months ago provide a tragic symbol of the encounter between East and West during the past five centuries: superior military technology has allowed Western nations to impose their will across the globe, inducing a prolonged crisis of culture among the losers.

In the report, the research team notes that in addition to veterans suffering from GWI, other deployed troops from the first Gulf War report a variety of neurological disorders, either in conjunction with GWI or as separate ailments.

When hundreds of thousands of American troops deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991 in what is now called the First Gulf War, they were exposed to a variety of chemicals.

White and colleagues have been studying the health of troops deployed in the 1991 Gulf War for more than 20 years to determine why so many of them suffer from a multi-system disorder characterized by fatigue, joint and muscle pain, headaches, concentration and memory problems, gastrointestinal distress, and skin rashes.

Here's another example: About midway through Underground, as Assange is using his access to the US military's databases to figure out where troops are being deployed for the first Gulf War, his live - in girlfriend asks whether his computer can locate Melbourne, «where your son and his mother are.»