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Inside a Chlorine Bomb Attack

The Marines of Military Transition Team 6 have some serious stones. Check out their account of Wednesday’s chlorine bomb attack in Fallujah. Here’s a snip: After all "shook it off," we got most of us out of the rubble and the gas, did a head-count, realized there were still some back in. All rubble, smoke […]

The Marines of Military Transition Team 6 have some serious stones. Check out their account of Wednesday's chlorine bomb attack in Fallujah. Here's a snip:

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*After all "shook it off," we got most of us out of the rubble and the gas, did a head-count, realized there were still some back in. All rubble, smoke and chlorine gas, hard to see what was what, and of course you can't breathe. So of course, we ran back in it. *

Now, DANGER ROOM contributor Jason Sigger is right, when he calls the chlorine attacks "relatively ineffective." And it's true, that "the current military mask is all that is needed to protect individuals from exposure to this industrial chemical." But still, I sure as hell wouldn't want to in those Marines' chem-protective gear.

(High five: Blackfive)

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