Wouldn't the airmen be just as reposnsible for not following the proper procedure though? Or at least reporting their senior officer for ordering them to do otherwise?
No because they're given the orders in the first place and would be punished for disobeying them. You can bring up grievance reports, but you cannot just outright REFUSE an order. The military doesn't work like that. You're given an order and you're trained to believe that it comes with sound reasoning. Unless these airmen
willfully disobeyed direct orders by taking shortcuts, they shouldn't be punished for following what they're told.
But the media is vicious and the American public is retarded when it comes to military protocol because, naturally, only people in the military or with military families know what really goes on. Just look at Vietnam; most of the public viciously spat on the injured soldiers who returned to the soil because they were committing an "injustice" but it all came from someone higher than them. Don't blame the soldiers, blame the guys who give them orders. They relieved some officers of duty, but in military terms that means "retired with slightly lower than average pension." These airmen will most likely get a court martial and thrown in Levinworth for years... and let me tell you folks, Levinworth is a different kind of prison. Think Oz but 20x worse. The inmates are all trained soldiers, sailors, and marines; one false move and your ass is grass.
So you're saying that gulf war syndrome does not exist?
No, I'm saying that the independent research of a group of "experts" followed by a handful of pictures doesn't prove without a reasonable doubt that DU is
MASSIVELY TOXIC. It is a toxic metal, there's no denying that, but there are hundreds of various factors that can cause birth defects and cancer among Americans and Iraqi people including parasites, an early anthrax vaccine, chemical weapons such as mustard and nerve gas, pesticides, smoke, and various other untested vaccinations and chemicals used by both Americans and the enemy.
Pretty much everything causes cancer. You can't just narrow it down to one thing and say it's true because some doctor tested a handful of soldier's urine and connected the chemical to DU and DU
only.