Author Topic: Depleted Uranium... (Read 2085 times)

Hawco · « **Reply #60 on:** April 09, 2007, 12:06:09 PM »

Don't think I'd like to have hung around them oil wells, your right, we went right up North, straight up the pipe as we called it, hard to belive that here we are on an AH BBS and we probably passed each other some way along the line in another life.
We had some fire support from mainly British Artillery, but who knows who's rounds were going where? I was at the bottom of the food chain and so I had no idea much of the time, in the warrior and out the warrior, rinse and repeat, All I did was make sure I got as close to the gun group as possible, everytime we dismounted.

tedrbr · « **Reply #61 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:00:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Hornet33
This is the kind of truck I was driving, M985 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) ...

HEMTT's... Not the best vehicle to ride around Iraq in, but at least you were not running the refuelers.

Insurgents liked nothing better than hitting a HEMTT since those big diesel fuel tanks it had would burn for hours, but a HEMTT refueler rig was the thing insurgent wet dreams were made of. Columns of thick black smoke thousands of feet high burning through the day. Big display for everyone to see.

I remember the day the convoy from KBR Anaconda got hit from Anaconda coming to BIAP. I was living in LSA West at the time, just before moving to Taji, and they got hit just to our north on Sword. Looked like pics from the oil well fires in Desert Storm from a distance.

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And all of you worried about radiation ought to look at what coal fired plants release. DU is bad, or worse, for it's heavy metal properties than it's radioactivity. Coal plants routinely release uranium (1 part per million (ppm) in some samples to around 10 ppm in others) and thorium (2.5 times as much as uranium amounts typically) but also daughter products produced by the decay of these isotopes, such as radium, radon, polonium, bismuth, lead, and radioactive potassium-40.

The collected ash from the plants that ends up as waste is made up of coal ash: composed primarily of oxides of silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, titanium, sodium, potassium, arsenic, mercury, and sulfur plus small quantities of uranium and thorium, as well as Fly Ash: primarily composed of non-combustible silicon compounds (glass) melted during combustion. Tiny glass spheres form the bulk of the fly ash.

You get less radiation exposure living next to a nuclear plant than living downwind of a coal burning plant.

Hawco · « **Reply #62 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:47:36 PM »

Not bothered one bit about DU rounds, Just glad they done the job they were designed for, no doubt the tree huggers will be wringing their hands reading this, but so what.
Wish I'd seen one of those A10's in action but all I ever saw was a few harriers waaay in the distance, doing their thing, couple of A10's flew over us once, first thought in my head was "kill em all" make no apology for that, none at all.

Hornet33 · « **Reply #63 on:** April 09, 2007, 01:53:23 PM »

I very rarely saw any aircraft out where we were at. Some helo's from time to time. We did have about a dozen or so cruise missles fly over us though. That was kinda weird to see.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #64 on:** April 09, 2007, 02:18:51 PM »

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Originally posted by dmf
Ok so if this stuff is a heavy metal and a poison why do we use it as ammo? Who is the college educated idiotic moron that decided on that move.

There so far has not been one scientific report that can establish with 100% certainty that the depleted uranium rounds used have caused cancer in those that have come into contact with these rounds.

One round from an A-10 can kill any tank in existance, that's why DU rounds are used.

ack-ack

x0847Marine · « **Reply #65 on:** April 09, 2007, 02:30:36 PM »

OT: any of you arty guys who were deployed ever see an "IMETS" Hummer?, or the "AN/TMQ-40 Integrated Meteorological System"?.. Army MOS 93Fox

I was told there were 3 early models in country.

BaDkaRmA158Th · « **Reply #66 on:** April 09, 2007, 02:45:33 PM »

If mankind is unable to have children in our future.
you all know why.

Maverick · « **Reply #67 on:** April 09, 2007, 06:33:27 PM »

"Mankind" does not have children even in the present. Womankind does.

Hornet33 · « **Reply #68 on:** April 09, 2007, 07:20:22 PM »

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Originally posted by BaDkaRmA158Th
If mankind is unable to have children in our future.
you all know why.

Yep it'll be the U.S.'s fault for using DU ammo in Iraq, because no one else on this planet ever screws anything up.

If it gets to the point where the human race can't repopulate itself, it won't be because of DU rounds, not that I really care one way or the other. Too many damn people on this rock as it is.

Hawco · « **Reply #69 on:** April 09, 2007, 08:18:44 PM »

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Originally posted by Hornet33
Yep it'll be the U.S.'s fault for using DU ammo in Iraq, because no one else on this planet ever screws anything up.

If it gets to the point where the human race can't repopulate itself, it won't be because of DU rounds, not that I really care one way or the other. Too many damn people on this rock as it is.

Good shout mate

BaDkaRmA158Th · « **Reply #70 on:** April 09, 2007, 09:48:00 PM »

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Yep it'll be the U.S.'s fault for using DU ammo in Iraq, because no one else on this planet ever screws anything up.

Could care less,because almost everyone uses Du rounds.

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If it gets to the point where the human race can't repopulate itself, it won't be because of DU rounds, not that I really care one way or the other. Too many damn people on this rock as it is.

Agreed.