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SHAD INVESTIGATION GROWS
As an expansion of the Defense Department's investigation of the Shipboard Hazard and Defense tests, a team will go to Dugway Proving Ground in mid-August to review Deseret Test Center records. The SHAD tests involved the Army's Deseret Test Center, Army and Navy vessels and Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft. SHAD was a subset of Project 112, a chemical and biological weapons vulnerability-testing program conducted by the Deseret Test Center from 1963 to 1969. Investigators have identified some 2,700 to 2,800 service members involved in the tests. The work at Dugway in August will complete the investigation of all tests conducted at Deseret. DoD health affairs official Dr. William Winkenwerder says that declassification of 17 more SHAD tests is under way. Veterans who believe they were involved in SHAD tests and desire medical evaluations should call the VA's Helpline at (800) 749-8387. For SHAD fact sheets, visit http://deploymentlink.osd.mil/current_issues/shad/shad_intro.shtml.
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