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In reply to the discussion: 51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After [View all]FBaggins
(28,705 posts)82. I have plenty of evidence... and I pointed you at it.
You have no evidence at all to support your claim - you never do.
I encouraged you to go back and actually review the stories from that first week or two after 3/11. The carrier was frequently in the news and it doesn't match the story that you're spinning off of the faulty yarns they're trying to sell the rest of us.
You're telling me that you were in the AF for eight years and don't know that our premier military assets have comprehensive CBR defenses - including constant overpressure so that radioactive particles aren't contaminating crew spaces? And that's hardly the only error:
For instance... you went and posted "Unless evidence can be presented that they were taking prophylactic and decontamination measures the evidence suggests they were almost certain working, eating, drinking and sleeping in a contaminated environment." as if were reasonable to make that assumption. Yet how many seconds does it take to google news about the ship from that period? Or actually read some of the prior articles on these same claims where other sailors talked about everyone getting checked every time they left the deck? (or the videos Arnie put up showing the decon stations)?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reagan-moved-detecting-radioactive-plume/story?id=13129409


http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/03/23/6328076-the-uss-ronald-reagan-aircraft-carrier-gets-washed-to-remove-radioactive-contamination
I encouraged you to go back and actually review the stories from that first week or two after 3/11. The carrier was frequently in the news and it doesn't match the story that you're spinning off of the faulty yarns they're trying to sell the rest of us.
You're telling me that you were in the AF for eight years and don't know that our premier military assets have comprehensive CBR defenses - including constant overpressure so that radioactive particles aren't contaminating crew spaces? And that's hardly the only error:
For instance... you went and posted "Unless evidence can be presented that they were taking prophylactic and decontamination measures the evidence suggests they were almost certain working, eating, drinking and sleeping in a contaminated environment." as if were reasonable to make that assumption. Yet how many seconds does it take to google news about the ship from that period? Or actually read some of the prior articles on these same claims where other sailors talked about everyone getting checked every time they left the deck? (or the videos Arnie put up showing the decon stations)?
http://abcnews.go.com/International/uss-carrier-ronald-reagan-moved-detecting-radioactive-plume/story?id=13129409


http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/03/23/6328076-the-uss-ronald-reagan-aircraft-carrier-gets-washed-to-remove-radioactive-contamination
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51 Sailors from USS Ronald Reagan Suffering Thyroid Cancer, Leukemia, Brain Tumors After [View all]
diane in sf
Dec 2013
OP
Apparently the USS Ronald Reagan doesn't use distillation, it uses reverse osmosis
bananas
Dec 2013
#25
Reversed osmosis is a preferred method for removing radioactive material from drinking water
idwiyo
Dec 2013
#26
All that is needed now is some idea what level of radioactivity was present in sea water,
idwiyo
Dec 2013
#42
If you re-read this particular thread again, you might notice it does not discuss
idwiyo
Dec 2013
#59
The sailors were told to stop using desalinated water because it was contaminated
bananas
Dec 2013
#89
thanks for this link, I'm a little uneasy about sharing the turner news network with anybody..
Voice for Peace
Dec 2013
#29
New info from Al Jazeera - several sailors don't have their participation in their medical records
bananas
Dec 2013
#72
Wow. And I assume therefore that everyone in Japan has brain tumors, luekemia and...
NNadir
Dec 2013
#54
Please delete the holocaust denying/white nationalist link in the OP and use another
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2013
#50
+2 Thank you. Didn't bother to even look at this link, but after seeing your post I did.
idwiyo
Dec 2013
#60
Please, do elaborate about my efforts to "misdirect readers ". Explanation about efficency of RO
idwiyo
Dec 2013
#66