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A Personal Postscript

Returning to my dose of 5.874R discussed on page 15, I discovered the following statement issued by SAIC, Inc., which correlates to the exact dates of my arrival and departure from Eniwetok Atoll:

"Consider a resident on Eniwetok Island from 13 October 1950 through 13 November 1951. From reference this dose during Operation GREENHOUSE (through 2 July 1951) was 5.2 rem. From Table 1, his additional dose for the period 3 July to 30 November 1951 was 0.657 rem. Thus this total dose during his 13-month tour of duty at Eniwetok (residence island exposure only) was not more than 5.86 rem (5.2 + 0.66). 57

As previously stated, my dose was reduced from 5.874R to 4.2R because of the non-existent rain. Then, when I proved, with the help of the DNA, that it had not rained, I received a letter stating my dose was now 4.7R. When I again did the DNA's homework for them, this time proving that shell hunting trips were conducted by the Garrison Force to contaminated islands in the northwest quadrant of the atoll, my dose was further upgraded to 4.94R. Just low enough to be below the DNA's magic threshhold dose of 5.0R. However, when you consider the above quoted statement, my dose is already 5.86. I guess it all depends on which of its various papers the DNA chooses to read, just so long as they did not have to admit that the entire task force had been overexposed.

It is useful to note that this document is absent any reference to the radiation exposure standard previous cited (3.9R 13-weeks; 5.0R yr.). In the same breath it makes no reference that once an exposure level has been reached that that individual is supposed to be immediately removed from the radiation environment. However, as with the case of all GH personnel, especially those in the Garrison Force, evacuation was never accomplished. A personal note here: My relationship with SAIC, after the death of Col. Goetz, could not be described as cordial. In fact in a meeting with Dr. J. Klemm, who now heads the SAIC dose reconstruction effort at a cost of the tax-payer of $3,000 per dose reconstruction, I became so incensed I had to temporarily absent myself. Dr. Klemm, whom Atomic Veterans affectionately refer to as Kadilehopper (based on Red Skelton's character Clem Kadilehopper), made the statement in the presence of myself, Dr. Oscar Rosen, National Commander of the National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) and Mrs. Pat Broudy, then NAAV's National Legislative Director, that "Atomic Veterans are out to rip off the government." This statement was also made in the presence of D. Michael Schaeffer, present NTPR Director. I brought this matter to the attention of the former Director

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