Just thought I'd pose the question out there to those who served in Desert Shield/Storm who once returning, to find their personal and anyone they served with mysteriously missing their shot records. For some reason, all of the sudden it was just fine to get a fresh blank card installed in their Medical records whereas before and since, you end up feeling like a pincushion because of any loss of said record! This is regardless if you loose it, or the medical department does. I am only bringing this up to see if others recall and possibly know the "REAL" reason why this occured?

Not that I'd ever expect to get an "Official" answer of course, but I'd just like to see how many do respond!

I did not see this addressed anywhere, so thought I'd pose this!

Is it a coverup conspiracy of some sort, or well, hell, this is just SOP from those returning from war?

It was SOP to have a shot record in your medical jacket and indvidual shot record. Regarding DS/DS and those that were deployed thru US Army mobilization stations, shots administered were also documented thru the unit's mobilization station(garrison/installation). Mobilized Active, Guard, Reserve units, indviduals to include IMAs all followed the same process in the deployment & redployment process. This included and with emphasis; the medical processing. Extensive electronic record keeping was done during this period identifying, preparing and detrming elegibilty of Soldiers for deployment. The demobilization process of Soldiers was no different.

Vaccinations, to include P.B.administered to Soldiers, were uniform in administration at the mobilization station or CONUS debarkation point. A missing shot record should not be an indication of consiparcy. It is recognized what shots were administered for those Serving in the 1991 Gulf War.

Well, we asked what happened to the "Hard Card" shot record, and understand that only those who were deployed for DS/DS had to get "New" blank cards in their jacket.

While your explanation seems totally plausable, why wasn't that explanation given to us when we asked instead, of told they were lost?

The reason I believe they were lost was that our squadron was split 3 ways and the 2/3 of the squadron personnel not in combat still had their old shot record.

If your answer in that regard is that only DS/DS deployed troops had their cards yanked, maybe I could now understand just why....finally!

Thanks!

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Originally posted by RetiredGuns:
Well, we asked what happened to the "Hard Card" shot record, and understand that only those who were deployed for DS/DS had to get "New" blank cards in their jacket.

While your explanation seems totally plausable, why wasn't that explanation given to us when we asked instead, of told they were lost?

The reason I believe they were lost was that our squadron was split 3 ways and the 2/3 of the squadron personnel not in combat still had their old shot record.

If your answer in that regard is that only DS/DS deployed troops had their cards yanked, maybe I could now understand just why....finally!

Thanks!

i read in, and am not sure exactly where, but i did read it somewhere like the american legion on-line or military.com that the FDA recommended to the military to inform! soldier's of some of the dangers of some vaccines and to get a signed consent form from soldiers before giving them a certain vaccine, but the military didn't! follow that recommendation and i for one became very ill after getting my ds/ds immunization shots on dec., 1990.

i guss the army found that illness serious enough to give me a hardship discharged saying that i was non-deployable and marked as excess to unit, but didn't tell me why i became ill and left me in the dark to suffer all these years wondering why i was having all kinds of unexplained health problems and i didn't link it to the immunization shots at first until i heard about gulf war syndrom several years after getting those immunization shots, now after almost 2 decades since i was called up to active duty from the army reserve, i'm having trouble getting compensation for my health problems which i contribute to the illness from the vaccines.
i have done some research and to the best of my understanding the polio and typhoid vaccines have an interaction when given simultaniously like the way the army gave me all those immunizations simulitaniously.

i've also read that they disguised or totally left out the marking for the anthrax vaccine because they didn't have enough for every soldier so as not to make it obvious of who got it and was protected and who didn't.

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