Date Posted:Tue, Feb 25, 06:56:37am Author: cheryl Subject: Words of Wisdom about Terror Agents
I think there is more terrorism from our own people, from those within our own country, rather than those across the ocean ..... Vaccine makers, Schools that deny appropriate education, lawmakers that have hidden agendas, the media .....
this was a good article, sure puts it into persepective !
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About Terror Agents Words of Wisdom from an Armor
Master
Since the media has decided to scare everyone with
predictions of Chemical, Biological, or Nuclear
warfare on our turf I decided to write a paper and
keep things in their proper perspective. I am a
retired military weapons, munitions, and training
expert.
Lesson number one: In the mid 1990s there were a
series of nerve gas attacks on crowded Japanese subway
stations. Given perfect conditions for an attack less
than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured
were better in a few hours) and only one percent of
the injured died. 60 Minutes once had a fellow telling
us that one drop of nerve gas could kill a thousand
people. Well, he didn't tell you the thousand dead
people per drop are theoretical. Drill Sergeants
exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the
recruits awake in class (I know this because I was a
Drill Sergeant too).
Forget everything you've ever seen on TV, in the
movies, or read in a novel about this stuff, it was
all a lie (read this sentence again out loud!). These
weapons are about terror, if you remain calm, you will
probably not die. This is far less scary than the
media and their "Experts," make it sound.
Chemical weapons are categorized as Nerve, Blood,
Blister, and Incapacitating agents. Contrary to the
hype of reporters and politicians they are not weapons
of mass destruction they are "Area Denial" and terror
weapons that don't destroy anything. When you leave
the area you almost always leave the risk. That's the
difference. You can leave the area and the risk.
Soldiers may have to stay put and sit through it, and
that's why they need all that spiffy gear.
These are not gases; they are vapors and/or air borne
particles. The agent must be delivered in sufficient
quantity to injure, and that defines when and how it's
used. Every day we have a morning and evening
inversion where "stuff" suspended in the air gets
pushed down.
This inversion is why allergies (pollen) and air
pollution are worst at these times of the day. So, a
chemical attack will have its best effect an hour of
so either side of sunrise or sunset. Also, being
vapors and airborne particles they are heavier than
air so they will seek low places like ditches,
basements, and underground garages. This stuff won't
work when it's freezing, it doesn't last when it's
hot, and wind spreads it too thin too fast. They've
got to get this stuff on you, or, get you to inhale it
for it to work. They also have to get the
concentration of chemicals high enough to kill or
wound you. Too little and it's nothing, too much and
it's wasted.
What I hope you've gathered by this point is that a
chemical weapons attack that kills a lot of people is
incredibly hard to do with military grade agents and
equipment. So you can imagine how hard it will be for
terrorists. The more you know about this stuff the
more you realize how hard it is to use.
We'll start by talking about nerve agents. You have
these in your house; plain old bug killer (like Raid)
is nerve agent. All nerve agents work the same way;
they are cholinesterase inhibitors that mess up the
signals your nervous system uses to make your body
function. It can harm you if you get it on your skin
but it works best if they can get you to inhale it. If
you don't die in the first minute and you can leave
the area you're probably going live. The military's
antidotes for all nerve agents are atropine and
pralidoxime chloride.
Neither one of these does anything to cure the nerve
agent; they send your body into overdrive to keep you
alive for five minutes, after that the agent is used
up. Your best protection is fresh air and staying
calm.
Listed below are the symptoms for nerve agent
poisoning: Sudden headache, Dimness of vision (someone
you're looking at will have pinpointed pupils), Runny
nose, Excessive saliva or drooling, Difficulty
breathing, Tightness in chest, Nausea or Stomach
cramps, Twitching of exposed skin where a liquid just
got on you.
If you are in public and you start experiencing these
symptoms, first ask yourself, did anything out of the
ordinary just happen, a loud pop, did someone spray
something on the crowd? Are other people getting sick
too? Is there an odor of newly mown hay, green corn,
something fruity, or camphor where it shouldn't be? If
the answer is yes, then calmly (if you panic you
breathe faster and inhale more air/poison) leave the
area and head upwind or outside. Fresh air is the best
"right now antidote". If you have a blob of liquid
that looks like molasses or Karo syrup on you; blot it
or scrape it off and away from yourself with anything
disposable. This stuff works based on your body
weight. What a crop duster uses to kill bugs won't
hurt you unless you stand there and breathe it in real
deep, then lick the residue off the ground for while.
Remember, they have to do all the work, they have to
get the concentration up and keep it up for several
minutes; while all you have to do is quit getting it
on you/quit breathing it by putting space between you
and the attack.
Blood agents are cyanide or arsine which affects your
blood's ability to provide oxygen to your tissue. The
scenario for attack would be the same as a nerve
agent. Look for a pop or someone splashing/spraying
something and folks around there getting woozy or
falling down. The telltale smells are bitter almonds
or garlic where it shouldn't be. The symptoms are:
Blue lips, Blue under the fingernails, Rapid
breathing.
The military's antidote is amyl nitride, and just like
nerve agent antidote it just keeps your body working
for five minutes till the toxins is used up. Fresh air
is your best individual chance.
Blister agents (distilled mustard) are so nasty that
nobody wants to even handle it let alone use it. It's
almost impossible to handle safely and may have
delayed effect of up to 12 hours. The attack scenario
is also limited to the things you'd see from other
chemicals.
If you do get large, painful blisters for no apparent
reason, don't pop them. If you must, don't let the
liquid from the blister get on any other area, the
stuff just keeps on spreading. It's just as likely to
harm the user as the target. Soap, water, sunshine,
and fresh air are this stuff's enemy.
Bottom line on chemical weapons (it's the same if they
use industrial chemical spills); they are intended to
make you panic, to terrorize you, to herd you like
sheep to the wolves. If there is an attack, leave the
area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind
stream. They have to get the stuff to you, and on you.
You're more likely to be hurt by a drunk driver on any
given day than be hurt by one of these attacks. Your
odds get better if you leave the area. Soap, water,
time, and fresh air really deal this stuff a knock-out
punch. Don't let fears of an isolated attack rule
your life. The odds are really on your side.
Nuclear bombs. These are the only weapons of mass
destruction on earth. The effects of a nuclear bomb
are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you see a
bright flash of light like the sun, where the sun
isn't, fall to the ground! The heat will be over in a
second. Then there will be two blast waves, one out
going, and one on its way back. Don't stand up to see
what happened after the first wave.
Anything that's going to happen will have happened in
two full minutes. These will be low yield devices, and
will not level whole cities. If you live through the
heat, blast, and initial burst of radiation, you'll
probably live for a very, very long time. Radiation
will not create fifty foot tall women, or giant ants
and grasshoppers the size of tanks. These will be at
the most 1 kiloton bombs. That's the equivalent of
1,000 tons of TNT.
Here's the real deal. Flying debris and radiation will
kill a lot of exposed (not all!) people within a half
mile of the blast. Under perfect conditions, this is
about a half mile circle of death and destruction, but
when it's done it's done. EMP stands for Electro
Magnetic Pulse, and it will fry every electronic
device for a good distance. It's impossible to say
what and how far, but probably not over a couple of
miles from ground zero is a good guess. Cars, cell
phones, computers, ATMs, you name it, all will be out
of order.
There are lots of kinds of radiation; you only need to
worry about three, the others you have lived with for
years. You need to worry about "Ionizing radiation".
These are little sub-atomic particles that go whizzing
along at the speed of light. They hit individual cells
in your body, kill the nucleus and keep on going.
That's how you get can imagine how hard it radiation
poisoning. You have so many dead cells in your body
that the decaying cells poison you. It's the same as
people getting radiation treatments for cancer, only a
bigger area gets radiated.
The good news is you don't have to just sit there and
take it, and there is a lot you can do rather than
panic.
First; your skin will stop alpha particles, a page of
a news paper or your clothing will stop beta
particles. You just have to try and avoid inhaling
dust that's contaminated with atoms that are emitting
these things, and you'll be generally safe from them.
Gamma rays are particles that travel like rays
(quantum physics makes my brain hurt!) and they create
the same damage as alpha and beta articles; only they
keep going and kill lots of cells as they go all the
way through your body. It takes a lot to stop these
things, lots of dense material.
On the other hand it takes a lot of this to kill you.
Your defense is as always to not panic. Basic hygiene
and normal preparation are your friends. All canned or
frozen food is safe to eat. The radiation poisoning
will not affect plants, so fruits and vegetables are
OK if there's no dust on them (rinse them off if there
is). If you don't have running water and you need to
collect rain water or use water from wherever, just
let it sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water
gently from the top. The dust with the bad stuff in it
will settle and the remaining water can be used for
the toilet which will still work if you have a bucket
of water to pour in the tank.
Finally there's biological warfare. There's not much
to cover here.
Basic personal hygiene and sanitation will take you
further than a million doctors. Wash your hands often;
don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses, etc, with
strangers. Keep your garbage can with a tight lid on
it, don't have standing water (like old buckets,
ditches, or kiddy pools) lying around to allow
mosquitoes breeding room. This stuff is carried by a
vector, which are bugs, rodents, and contaminated
material. If biological warfare is as easy as the TV
makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein spent twenty
years, millions and millions of dollars trying to get
it right? If you're clean of person and home, you eat
well and are active you're going to live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the
same as you'd take for a big storm. If you want a gas
mask, fine, go get one. I know this stuff and I'm not
getting one and I told my Mom not to bother with one
either (how's that for confidence). We have a week's
worth of cash, several days worth of canned goods and
plenty of soap and water.
We don't leave stuff out to attract bugs or rodents so
we don't have them. These people can't conceive a
nation this big with this many resources. These
weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to
demoralize. If we don't run around like sheep, they
won't use this stuff after they find out it's no fun.
The can imagine how hard it government is going nuts
over this stuff because they have to protect every
inch of America. You've only got to protect yourself,
and by doing that you help the country.
Finally, there are millions of caveats to everything I
wrote here, and you can think up specific scenarios
where my advice isn't the best.
This letter is supposed to help the greatest number of
people under the greatest number of situations. If you
don't like my work, don't nit pick, just sit down and
explain chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare in a
document around three pages long yourself. This is how
we the people of the United States can rob these
people of their most desired goal, your terror.
SFC Red Thomas (Ret) Armor Master Gunner,
Mesa, AZ
Reproduction and distribution is authorized and
encouraged. Just give me credit for my work
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