Who got an anthrax immuno series?

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

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I got my first rig in basic (Ft Benning). It hurt for about 30 minutes and then cool. I got my 2nd in Iraq. It hurt all day. I got my 3rd and final 2-3 months later in Iraq. That hit hurt for several days. Strange thing is the PA's were drwing their rigs from the same vial for all of us. First timers had the half hour hurt while myself and other 2nd and 3rd timers felt the same pain that I described.

Any of you other gulf war vets have the same reaction? I'm not going into tinfoil hat territory, just wanted to know other's input here.
 
For a time referrence, this happened during '03.
 
I'm a retired senior officer ... left just before the Pentagon forced me to get the series.

Oddly enough, I've never been forced since to get this particular immunization series. Everything else (and I MEAN everything else) ... yes. This ... no.

Sounds like I should count myself lucky.
 
Mid '90's, one dose before SWA deployment. I felt like I had the flu for 2-3 days.
 
I'm wondering if this will cause me big grief 15-25 years down the road like agent orange.
 
Charlie Mike said:
I'm wondering if this will cause me big grief 15-25 years down the road like agent orange.
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I really hope not, but I just can't be sure. Which is why I was happy I wasn't forced to try it, myself.

After the debacles of the last 40 years, I think you can count on a pretty strong thread of continuing research that should highlight any problems for you. You at least have that going for you.
 
I got all the shots in series at Hunter Army Airfield, I seriously thought my damn arm was gonna fall off after the 3rd, hurt for weeks.Still to this day have a red dot where I got it. When the antrax scare happened it made me feel better bout checking the mail, amazing they never caught who did it.
 
morrowj_98 said:
I had mine in the early 90s and had the same reaction...
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Same with me and I just got a booster and that one hurt like hell!! I look at it this way, it pays the bills. Now their letting folks not get the shot, when I went threw they would process the trouble markers out. Some Commander has stock in the company obviously :mad:
 
I was USAF from may 75 to may 79 and on Alert most of that time. I got so many shots that they used up 2 whole shot record forms. The anthrax hurt a lot, so did some of the otheres, swine flu comes to mind, the original, not this new wave thing.
 
i got sick for a week from the shots that they gave out in 1978. i had a temperature of 104 within a half hour of getting them.
 
C.Edmondson said:
I got all the shots in series at Hunter Army Airfield, I seriously thought my damn arm was gonna fall off after the 3rd, hurt for weeks.Still to this day have a red dot where I got it. When the antrax scare happened it made me feel better bout checking the mail, amazing they never caught who did it.
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They never actually slapped the cuffs on anybody but they know it came out of Fort Detrick. They say it came out of the strain in the custody of Bruce Ivins but who knows.
 
YOu should be good CM.....I got my series in '99 before going to Bosnia, and everything's still good with me 10 years later. Lost a little hair since then.....but haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary (hmmm...maybe I should look into this!!). I was sceptical and defiant at first, but no shots....no deployment!! You know how it goes......NJP is not for me!!!
 
On a side note... (I would never really do this)

If I had to kill a guy, I'd bust out a quarter gram of anthrax and tell him it's coke. After we each do a line... Surprise :eek:
 
When I was in Saudi we went to the BAS to get the shots. I asked the Corpsman if it was mandatory and when he said "No" I told him I was refusing to take it. The Captain tried hard to convince me I had to get it but I held my ground. I think I was the only one in my company who didn't get it.
 
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