What I have found out is that in war, the official truth tends to be somewhat different from the independent research done later.
I'm glad to hear that you made it out healthy and in one piece if you really were there. And I understand that being a soldier it might be fundamentally difficult to question authority and training. However pre-war even the US army official stance was cautionary towards pulverized DU (IF the documentaries I've seen were reliable, sources like BBC.) DU was to be handled with similar care compared to other nuclear hazards. I saw an interview of a british tank repairman who told that in the service they were on their knees with no protection repairing (or salvaging parts) from friendly-fire cases and then later when they transferred the broken hulls to the saudi-side they were greeted with a fully protected team with geiger meters. He says he was quite astonished at that time.
Jeezy: I was referring to effets in combatants, not civililan population. As I understand it in Kosovo the climate is totally different from Iraq. Iraqi climate is dry, dusty and windy which effectively spreads any aerosols to large distances where Kosovo climate is wet and the terrain grassy which then absorbs microparticles effectively. When the particles stop being airborne they stop being a real hazard. Although I've seen documentaries of researchers doing secret studies in Iraq. The geiger meter redlined in most of the spots which were hit during the conflict with DU weapons. The values varied from 200 to 20000 times the normal background radiation. There were children playing in the tank of which one of the worst levels was measured.
