JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Mon, February 13, 2006 1:18:17 PM
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 2/13/06
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Also, it is obvious that I am a control subject in a behavior patterns experiment. I do not appreciate being forced to stand up like some E-5 to a figurative H-bomb test so I can soak up the radiation and smile for the camera. I am an indepedant person with a great deal of initiative and I have a lot of important objectives to meet. So get out of my way and let me get back to work.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=51435
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks on the Downing of a United States Aircraft in Bosnia
June 2, 1995
Good afternoon. I am very concerned about the loss of our F-16 over Bosnia and the fate of the American pilot, and we are following that situation closely.
I have spoken today with President Chirac about the situation in Bosnia and about the meetings that Secretary Perry and General Shalikashvili will be attending. I've spoken with Secretary Perry and will meet with him and General Shali later today. We've also been in touch with the NATO commanders and with other governments.
I want to reiterate and make absolutely clear that our policy on Bosnia remains firm. For reasons that I think are obvious, I will have no further comments on this situation today.
Thank you very much.
NOTE: The President spoke at 2:20 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Capt. Scott F. O'Grady, USAF, and President Jacques Chirac of the European Council.
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http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-02/news/mn-8515_1_nuclear-radiation
Los Angeles Times
Brass Wanted to 'Erase' Soldiers' Fear of Radiation
June 02, 1995|From Associated Press
Troop exercises during nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s were designed to convince soldiers that their fear of radiation was irrational and to give them "an emotional vaccination," newly declassified Pentagon records show.
It has been known for decades that soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation during exercises starting in 1951 at the Nevada nuclear test range. The newly available documents open a window into the reasoning of military leaders in secret discussions about how far to go in using GIs in the tests.
The basic judgment, as reflected in the records, was that soldiers had an exaggerated fear of nuclear radiation after the two U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan in 1945. The solution was to put GIs in foxholes near ground zero of nuclear bomb blasts and then move them even closer after the shock wave passed.
Little consideration was given to longer-term health risks to the soldiers. The focus was on the short term, to erase what one general in a 1951 report called a "combat unfavorable psychology."
In a newly declassified Pentagon briefing paper dated Feb. 27, 1953, the purpose of the indoctrination effort was described this way:
"To remove from the minds of the troops--and therefore to a degree from the minds of other persons in the services with whom they will later come in contact--the folklore and superstition regarding atomic explosions . . , particularly effects connected with nuclear radiation hazards."
Military leaders felt this psychological manipulation was essential because of their belief that nuclear war with the Soviet Union could begin at any time.
The formerly secret Pentagon papers are among thousands of pages of documents of the now-defunct Armed Forces Special Weapons Project that have been declassified by the National Archives at the request of the Associated Press.
At least 40,000 men from all branches of the U.S. military participated in eight Desert Rock exercises in Nevada, from 1951 to 1957, according to the Pentagon.
Air Force Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Hagemann, director of the Defense Nuclear Agency, which is reviewing Cold War-period radiation research on human subjects, told a congressional panel on Jan. 25, 1994, that about 1,600 individuals in the Desert Rock tests received radiation doses in excess of 5 roentgens. Today's occupational exposure limit is 5 roentgens per year.
Some veterans now link serious ailments, including cancers, to their participation in the Nevada tests, and many have organized to win compensation. The extent of injuries or illnesses that can be blamed on Desert Rock is not clear.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/allamerican-heros-errors-bring-nato-down-to-earth-1590222.html
THE INDEPENDENT
All-American hero's errors bring Nato down to earth
Christopher Bellamy
Friday, 7 July 1995
Captain Scott O'Grady, the US pilot shot down by the Bosnian Serbs, is not quite the hero he was made out to be, according to Nato sources in Italy.
The way he was shot down, and his inability to communicate with aircraft searching for him, have revealed many shortcomings, and the US Air Force will have to take a hard look at its pilots' training. The rescue force, from the assault ship USS Kearsarge, performed well, although questions have also been asked about the need for so many senior officers to fly on a dangerous mission into hostile territory.
Since Capt O'Grady was shot down, the Nato planes enforcing operation Deny Flight have been avoiding the airspace over Bosnia, flying over Croatia or the Adriatic instead, which limits their ability to pursue any Serb aircraft which take to the air. Yesterday the Bosnian Serbs launched an air attack on the Bihac pocket, which Nato did not pick up - because their planes were not there.
Capt O'Grady's first mistake was a matter of discipline - he took off dressed only in a flying suit and a T-shirt , not properly clad to eject and survive in a hostile environment.
The Bosnian Serbs apparently locked radar on to his F-16 fighter several times, but he continued circling when he should have known he had been picked up. Eventually, the Serbs launched an SA-6 missile ,guiding it towards his plane visually. A quick transmission from the radar was then enough to guide the missile to the plane in its final moments, blowing it in two.
Capt O'Grady did not, apparently, know how to use his survival radio or the Global positioning system. Eventually, he seems to have worked out how to use the aids by trial and error: had he been well versed in the drills, he could have been picked up days earlier, sources said. He also headed towards a reference point quite needlessly, showing a misunderstanding of basic procedures.
The pilot was eventually rescued by two Sea Stallions and two Cobra attack helicopters from the Kearsarge, which had arrived in the Adriatic on 29 May, four days before he was shot down.
"We thought he was dead," said an officer on the Kearsarge. "The first we heard about him being alive was very early the morning of the rescue." An Airborne Warning and Control aircraft had pinpointed Capt O'Grady's position and passed an accurate grid reference to the Marine force, though they were not in contact with the downed airman until they were 10 miles out from their objective. "When we got within a mile or so he could hear us and said we were overhead. O'Grady produced his own smoke - orange smoke," said one of the helicopter pilots.
Helicopters carrying Marine infantry, led by Colonel Marty Berndt, the commander of the 2,000 strong 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), landed. "We could see [Capt O'Grady] coming through the woods. He was wearing a survival hat which he could turn inside out. We could see the orange hat," one of the pilots said.
The Bosnian Serbs opened fire at the departing helicopters. The Unit's senior sergeant major offered Capt O'Grady a drink, then put his metal water bottle back just in time to deflect a Serb bullet which had penetrated the fuselage.
The US authorities also raised eyebrows about the need to have the MEU commander and a senior member of his headquarters staff on a hazardous mission into hostile territory when it was not necessary.
There was already a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the mission. Colonel Berndt is reported to have said he wanted to demonstrate he would do anything he asked his men to do.
But some US officers drew a parallel with Star Trek. "Why do they always send the captain, the first officer, the doctor and the chief engineer to look over a hostile planet?" one asked.
