My Service Connection Injury Compensation Report, from 1994

My Service Connection Injury includes the "Gulf War Syndrome!"

In my case, the "Persian Gulf War Syndrome" may have been derived from an isolated incident like this close call. While we the USS Tarawa LHA-1 was moored to the pier in Al Jubayl, right alongside tons and tons of ordinances, there was a Scud Missile Strike that missed its target, during the "Desert Storm Operation!" I remember our liberty call was just hours before this sudden near miss strike, and just immediately after the impact and explosion occurred, Our General Quarters Alarm had sounded to recall all ships personnel back onboard prior to mustering, and getting back underway into the Persian Gulf.

The Persian Gulf, A very large mass of water where we would find a lot of oil well pipes that derived from beneath the ocean floor, and that traveled upward and broke surface of the water to go at least as high as five feet, only to expose itself with fiery flames and its black smoke. It looked like large black candles on fire, as our vessel of course tried to avoid crashing into, or scraping up against them. Nonetheless were underwater explosive mines, that were kept in check and disarmed by our (EOD) Explosive Ordinance Demolition Teams, on Mine Sweeping Missions before and during the entire Persian Gulf War, in 1991.

For me as an "Airdale" working topside on the Tarawa's Flight Deck at that time, I was openly exposed to all the toxic fumes or deadly nerve agents found from these oil well pipes in the Gulf; from whatever the winds had blown off shore during the wartime ground troops exchange of fire that left the sky full of ashes and a very thin clear horizon. As well as the near miss Scud Missile explosions that did release toxic gases or possibly even nerve agents such as Agent Orange!

This article below clearly states, even without this Scud Missile having Biological Warfare Head or Chemical Warfare Heads, the missile did release some form of strange smelling fumes and toxic gases into the air for quite some time. Again, as we continued to work outdoors, we were in a more vulnerable position than other ships crew members protected indoors. Thus, it would be accurate to state that we had our share of inhalation with all kinds toxic fumes, gas or agents measured in lethal amounts, that would cause problematic health conditions, such as:

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and/or Fabrymiolgia (Joint Problems), both health conditions were not listed as part of the Gulf War Syndrome in 1994, but that changed within recent years and both conditions are now listed as a major part of the Persian Gulf War Syndrome! Meaning that it took a couple years for such health conditions to manifest itself in us Veterans from the Gulf War!

The following is from an article taken from US Pentagon:

February 16th Attack on Al Jubayl

Iraq fired a single Scud at the port city of Al Jubayl early on February 16th, The Patriot battery positioned to defend Al Jubayl was undergoing maintenance at the time and could not engage the Scud. The incoming missile broke up in flight over the harbor and hit in the water just off a large pier where six ships and two smaller craft were tied up. The missile's impact also was about 500 feet from ammunition storage on the pier.

One witness recalls hearing a loud explosion and seeing white-hot objects falling.The Scud caused no casualties or damage, but it exuded a blue, green, and yellow substance and bubbled a strong-smelling gas for some time (probably inhibited red fuming nitric acid ' see Section VII). United States Navy explosive ordnance disposal specialists eventually recovered the missile in parts using divers, flotation bags, and a crane. Test results performed on this Scud determined that it did not have a chemical or biological warhead.

Reference taken from URL: http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Pentagon/dodscud.htm

Furthermore, according a Gulf War Syndrome site, it lists that there are Untied States Armed Forces Veterans that have been in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, with less or no symptoms to illness unlike others. The IOM Institute of Medicine reveals the cause to this simple truth is due to the distinct difference in the immediate pre and post deployent dates for these Persian Gulf War Period Veterans, as well as the location of their mission during and after their time of battle.

Those that were part of the ground troop attack campaigne were pre-deployed for Desert Shield-from August 2,1990. through Desert Storm-Febuary 28 1991. These US ground troops that were there when ("ODS")"Operation Desert Storm" war began, escalated, climaxed and then ended. Than once "ODS" was finally over, they had a major immdiate re-deployment back to the United States. These Veterans in particular according to IOM Institute of Medicine, had fewer Gulf War Symptoms, isolated health conditions, or no ill health related issues regarding the Gulf War Syndrome.

However, other "ODS" Veterans that were diagnosed with multi-symptoms, or a range of illnesses identifiied as the "Gulf War Syndrome" were according to IOM Institute of Medicine, were not part of the pre-deployed "ODS" nor part of the immediate post war re-deployment back to the United States. They were also not part of the ground troops hot zone, which strangely and tragically enough, found to have many more united state ground troops killed more so from "Friendly Fire," than anything else.

We, the flight deck crew while aboard the USS Tarawa LHA-1 were deployed on December 1, 1990 and arrived on the "ODS" scene in early January 1991. We were strategically part of the the rest of "ODS" until "Cease Fire" was announced just a short time later. However, we were not part of the immediate post re-deployment back with the rest of the US Army Ground Troops. We instead, had patroling duties until long after the welcome home yellow ribbon celebration parades went on all across America. Our arrival home was with no parades, and with less hoorah from the public that late summer in 1991!

It's also important to note that our hazardous duty work environment on the flight deck of the Tarawa were not just from ready standby duties with our Marine Air Squadrons giving air support for Marine Brigade Corps Troops ashore. But during the climax of "ODS" before the cease fire, we were vulnerable to ground to shipboard scud missile stikes, while adrift near shore. We were the flag ship in our fleet and had fire power capabilities from both our "Sea Wiz" and "6 inch canons" We also had the "Mighty MO," Battle Ship: USS Misssouri nearby, and other Destroyers and Frigates that had the capabilities of Tomahawk Strikes and a Patriot Missile Defense to intercept any enemy scud missile attacks, with potetial (CW) chemical or (BW) biological warheads attached. We the Tarawa, and the rest of our Fleet Arsenial Defense delivered everythiing necessary to aid and support ground troops ashore and ensure the highly likelihood in their safe return.

The Iraqi Army in retaliation from losing soldiers, and the overall battle on the grounds from our US Troops ashore, ignited the "Oil Well Fires" ashore and out at sea in the Persian Gulf. Oil Well Pipes were found to be many in the Gulf itself, as we manuevered past them while underway at sea, avoiding any collisions thanks to our navigating team of Captain Fladd and our team of (QM) Quarter Masters located in the bridge during and after "ODS"!


It was an unexpected effort by the Iraqi's that left Kuwaiti burning long after the cease fire was announced in Febuary 1991, which was finally extinguished late that year in Navember, 1991. IOM also states that these "Oil Well Fires" did have toxic agents, if inhaled in lethal amounts! Which is a highly probably cause in US Veterans today that claim to have illnesses or multi-symptoms to what is identified today as the Gulf War Syndrome.

Well the IOM Institute of Medicine Reports more of the following:

"The IOM, Institute of Medicine, also found that service in the 1991 Gulf War is a cause of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in some veterans and is also associated with gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; substance abuse, particularly alcoholism; and psychiatric problems such as anxiety disorder. The IOM's report also shows there is some evidence that service during the 1991, Gulf War is linked to fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), sexual difficulties, and death due to causes such as, car accidents in the early years after deployment, but the data are limited, said the committee that wrote the report. Older research shows that the U.S. and the UK, with the highest rates of excess illness, are distinguished from the other nations by higher rates of pesticide use, use of anthrax vaccine, and somewhat higher rates of exposures to oil wells on fire, smoke and reported chemical alerts."

Therefore, it may have taken a few years for multi-illnesses to manifest itself soon after the Persian Gulf War in 1991. But now that it's been 20 years later, and I've been suffering since my Honorable Discharge in 1993, from Gastro-intestinal or IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I've suffered from major joint problems in my neck, back, shoulder, knee and ankles, highly probable from Fabromyalgia.

I've come to a solid conclusion to now know the source of my illnesses, thanks to the intensive longitudinal researchive studies on Armed Forces Veterans that served in the Persian Gulf War, by IOM, Institute of Medicine.

Reference was taken from-

URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome

URL:
http://208.86.252.130/~veterans/Persian/gulf_illness.html

Most Sincere,
Mickey Tovio Scanlan

Why (WI), Whidbey Island?

I wonder why God compelled me to live in a place like this, Whidbey Island Paradise away from my Polynesian Island Paradise, in American Samoa or on Oahu!

Since living here, God had unraveled the malicious and deceitful truths brought against me from those once closest to me. Michelle my ex-wife and the amount lies she has gotten away with, while conspire to have me on medications, and also encourage her on in her misdeeds and cover up within marriage over a dozen years ago. That involved a Nurse, her Father, her job, faculty members, and extra sexual marital affair(s) while on the campus of UW and on Oahu prior to our divorce in 1998.

My own siblings have betrayed me as well. They that were once supportive and encouraging to me, have turned into my worst tormentors I've dealt with ever in my entire life time. They are as bad as my IBS problems when it's inflamed!

Well the Navy is what I promised to reveal to my family and others like Michelle my ex-wife, and I haven't fallen short in doing so either. I may be moving a bit south of the NAS, I still live amongst many retirees and active duty members from the US Navy!

What compliments such a noble and honorary armed forces environment is what brings therapeutic healing and recovery from my major stresses through the natural forest life, the wild life, the marine life and grand mountain ranges, all on the peripheral, but God sends or shows his presence in a very real fashion, and I'm grateful for all that He has created to help me through my strife and struggles.

I've been blessed to live here, and it has changed my priorities, perspectives and patterns in the way I live my life now. Delivery of my past US Naval way living feels surreal and nostalgic at times, because it's the hard TRUTH EVERYONE wants absent in my past life, and my current life, but the can't dismiss entirely, ever!

Living all my infant, childhood and adolescent life on Amercian Samoa, and on the Island of Oahu, there familiarity here on Island County WA. Nevertheless, it's an living, working and playing environment that reminds me and them, of my Sea Duty Tour onboard the USS Tarawa LHA-1 home ported in San Diego, CA. for for 4 years, before transferring to Seattle, WA. for my Shore Duty Tour prior to being Discharged Honorably, for my active duty service from 1987-1993!

Again God unravelled things to me about Michelle from 15 years ago while we were together at UW and on Oahu from 1994-1998. While on the other hand, He is revealing the US Navy Work Environments, through Sea Duty Commands that are underway on the Straits of Juan De Fuca, or activity on Naval Airstrips found on the NAS, or just south of it in Coupeville. I'll always be around the Retired, Veteran and Active Duty Personnel Community on this Island or in Everett, WA. as well. It's essentially why Michelle, nor my own pagan siblings, nor the FEDS will EVER remove the US Navy from my past!

It's the TRUTH armored by God Himself!

It's now easier to forgive Michelle, with me having changed into a new creation given the help in this aesthetic living and work environment on Island County. She betrayed and deceived someone who I once was as her husband. She betrayed what she didn't accept, nor appreciate in me as a husband; that in which I am no longer a part of, nor have an interest in anymore!

That's why God has me here!

Most Sincere,
Mickey Tovio Scanlan

Focus!

Get rid of the distractions. Don't care who's at the game, how good you are. Don't try to live up to the name. Just go out, play hard and have fun! (M. Trufant on D. Trufant)...He's making the plays every opportunity he gets. And if he happens to not make the play, he's already forgotten it and it's on to that next play (SarkIsian on D. Trufant).

Family Reunions!

Family Reunions are for family members that haven't SEEN each other for some time, after months or years of being apart; only to get reacquainted, to reminisce, remind, reunite and introduce new people that have joined our family. To than, celebrate and welcome them with love happiness, joy , good times and the best of times.

It's unfortunate and embarrassing to be without my rights to privacy, or having the privilege to truly be obscured or apart from my family due simply because this federal investigation over my life. I've already and continue to been SEEN by ALL: our federal government, their law enforcement agents, the entire public, the celebrity circuit and again, ALL of my family themselves.

I'm have been a public spectacle that doesn't need to be reacquainted with my family members about anything, because everything about me since that last we've seen each other have been overexposed. I also should submit that I can't financially afford to attend such treasured fellowships, and it really disturbs and disgusts me that I can longer be refreshing news, but instead, old news going stale, and/or wastes that now have a strong stench odor. I'm also of course current real time news, that they will continue to have access to, either to learn something new from, or monitor me as they always have with much boredom.

Thus it's tragic but true, I WON'T BE MISSED by everyone that will attend our family event next week, in Hawaii!

Furthermore, I don't anticipate nor have an interest to see of my family members anytime soon; but there is one thing I know for certain. That which is that I continually pray to God before He takes me from His glorious green earth, which is that He blesses me a family of my own. Given a beautiful wife filled with His wisdom, and children of our own, to lesson over time through such hardships in my life experienced for a season now. To foster love, growth and development, and for them to become better quality individuals themselves, more than myself or my immediate samoan family ever have. I believe that the best alternative to a family reunion with those one was raised with, is to have ones own to raise with God in the lead.

To God be the glory!
Mickey Tovio Scanlan

P.S. This is the result of our globalized technological boom!

Visits

During my entire enrollment while at University of Washington (UW), I was less than 5 minutes to the Naval Station Puget Sound (NSPS) in Sand Point, WA. By the time of my second academic quarter at UW began, I was married to Michelle, with our former wedding anniversary date set at 11/11/1994. I was medically examined by the Veterans Administration Compensation and Pension Department in late 1994 as well, with payments initially arriving to our place or residence via post office, at that time.

I began feeling paranoid of being followed around campus was being treated for Paranoia (anxiety from suspicion) Delusional (strong bizarre beliefs), Depression (cross culture adjustment difficulty); these treated episodes were in the summer of 1996, at the Hall Health Department on the UW Seattle campus. I informed my therapist: Sharon Rederford (ARNP) that it was law enforcement officers that were undercover following me around campus and that I felt discriminated against, or definitely distracted by them, with the inability to concentration to do well in my academics was medicated with Resperidone and Zoloft.

Now, Fast forward the tape to my Life:

I realize now that instead of complaining about being followed by a conspiracy of under cover agents, I should have taken initiatives to take care of myself with legitimate visits to the Seattle, VAMC for my service connection injury that I was being compensated for by the Veterans Administration (VA) after the appointed VA medical evaluation in late 1994. I also should have visited my former Shore Duty Command: Naval Station Puget Sound in Sand Point on a occasion with Michelle just to reinforce the true reality that I was once stationed on this Naval Station during our courtship and intimacy just prior to my Honorable Discharge from the United States Navy on November 17, 1993.

So the tragic honesty to this mess at UW while I was treated in Hall Health with a diagnosis of paranoid delusional schizophrenia with depression features. I was actually monitored very closely through surveillance systemic devices from a team of law enforcement officers. I had come to conclude that the entire Faculty, Staff and Student Body knew about my misdiagnosis Mental Health Condition and discriminatory predicament.

Furthermore, I could have been treated for my (depressive) mental health conditions at Seattle, VAMC then. Most importantly I could have been seen by a physician in the Back/Spine Clinic at the Seattle, VAMC regarding my service connection injury, which was Chronic Lower Back Injury that was already at a percentage rate initially at 10%. By 2003, the Board of Veterans Appeals (BVA) increased to 20%; and is now pending in the appeals process for yet another increase.

Seriously, I'm crippled or disadvantaged without my daily routine to stretching the tightness out of my lower back and legs before bed, otherwise sleep for me would be difficult.

Now, Let's Rewind the tape of my life:

Had I had scheduled for Seattle, VAMC appointments during 1994-1997, I would highly DOUBT that there would have been a law and enforcement conspiracy speculating as to who I was then. These that I call the "Third Party," outside of my marriage and my UW academics, just would not exist! Why? Because I truly believe that they derived from UW Campus Police, and also in part were part of the Federal Law Enforcement Agents as well. So given my service connection injury, all I could have done to magnify my life as a Veteran of the United States Navy 1994-1997 while attending UW, just by being part of this enormous community of Veterans of during major World Wars past, such as:

WWI, WWII, Vietnam and Korean War and the "Desert Storm Operation"

Now, had I been a active or engaged within this VA Community of Veterans then like I am today, there would NOT have been any form of investigation against me, because there would be NO probable cause as to questioning my identity at that time, thus no profile nor investigation would have existed against me. Had I been part of an identity group that our Federal Government have always have been thankful for, respectful to and loyal in saluting with gratitude! Therefore, with no conspiracy against me, Michelle, my wife at that time and myself would have had our freedom, to live with liberty in the pursuit for our happiness in this land of opportunity as young and ambitious university students and/or college graduates then!

Had we visited the Former Naval Station in Sand Point, or NAS Whidbey Island on occasion; or had I had the urge to consider joining the "United States Naval Reserves" while I was an enrolled student at UW 1994-1997, the outcome of our lives today would highly likely be much different.

Out of all the lessons in my life, this has been the grandest of them all having lived through it these last 15 years!

Cross Cultural Experience/Shock!

Michelle was fresh out of UC Berkeley CA. and was back in the workplace full time, not to mention she was back up here in Washington State after 5-6 years in CA. So she was being shocked a cross cultural experience in relearning many things she disengaged with earlier in her young life then.

I too was young fresh out of the US Navy while trying going through a cross cultural experience within the Campus Life at UW, my new experience in being a married man for the first time, as well as adjusting to life as a civilian after 6 years of Active Duty Service in the United States Navy. But most unfortunately was NOT being aware that I had Seattle, VAMC medical benefits to be treated, along side other Veterans of the United States Armed Forces, with service connection injuries sustained during a Major War Time situation like the "Desert Storm Operation."

With all the adjustments going on in both Michelle and my life, we needed to be around a support/reinforcement group during 1994-1997. Michelle just graduated from a very large campus in UC Berkley, CA. and didn't like the idea me sharing time with other young single students; she preferred me to be around others that identified with ourselves. Which was we were mid-twenties, married and ex-military. So the VAMC, Veteran Community would have been a satisfactory group for support, or for reinforcing encouragements that knew about major transitions in life, or cross cultural experiences for Michelle and I.

I went from Columbia College (CC) Extended Studies (Night School) during my work days on my Shore Duty Tour on the NAVAL STATION PUGET SOUND at Sand Point 1991-1993. To a major University, like UW 1994-1997 just down the street, that was a five times the size of CC, and the studies were at a much higher level of difficulty within all my college studies, it was tremendous demand that had to be adjusted to in so very little time.

I submit, I did miss the United States Navy and those that were in the US Navy, I felt DEPRESSED because the transition in culture from military and civilian, and Michelle knew it too!

The Veteran Community would have made my move into civilian life much smoother, or with much less difficulty then, because many Veterans faced the same kinds of emotional, psychological and physiological changes when they were all honorably discharged themselves, having the same kinds appreciations they had of the Armed Forces Branch they were part of. Curtis, Michelle's father was a 34 year veteran of the US Army himself, so he knew of the difficulty of transitioning into a civilian.

Therefore, it is unfortunate because in actuality my support reinforcement group eventually consisted of just Michelle, and her father. Those 2 individuals could identify with everything that I was going through given my academic and former military life, through 1994-1997.

The Veteran Community in Seattle, WA. found in and around the Seattle, VAMC, or communities like: The DAV, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are who I affiliate with these days. Curtis Poree, Michelle father, was without a service connection injury so he had very little, or had no affiliation with any of these organizations full of Veterans from past Major Wars.

Again, this the grandest lesson of my life, thus far!

Most Sincere,
Mickey Tovio Scanlan

Vengeance is the Lords!

Vengeance, fury and wrath will free the oppressed from such cruel ridicules, and voices unkind that persist with defiance against Him and His elected!

Psalm 2:
1 Why do the (hawaiian kahuna) nations conspire[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their (Gods) chains
and throw off their (Gods) shackles.”
4 The One (God) enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
5 He rebukes them in his anger
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king (Jesus)
on Zion, my holy mountain (Heaven).”

Psalm 3:
7 Arise, LORD!
Deliver me, my God!
Strike all my enemies on the jaw;
break the teeth of the wicked.
8 From the LORD comes deliverance.
May your blessing be on your people.

Psalm 4:
8 In peace I will lie down and sleep,
for you alone, LORD,
make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 5:
3 In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my requests before you
and wait expectantly.
4 For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;
with you, evil people are not welcome.
5 The arrogant cannot stand
in your presence.
You hate all who do wrong;
6 you destroy those who tell lies.
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
you, LORD, detest.

Psalm 6:
9 The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;
the LORD accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;
they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.

Psalm 7:
6 Arise, LORD, in your anger;
rise up against the rage of my enemies.
Awake, my God; decree justice.
7 Let the assembled peoples gather around you,
while you sit enthroned over them on high.
8 Let the LORD judge the peoples.
Vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity, O Most High.
9 Bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure—
you, the righteous God
who probes minds and hearts.
10 My shield[d] is God Most High,
who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous judge,
a God who displays his wrath every day.
12 If he does not relent,
he[e] will sharpen his sword;
he will bend and string his bow.
13 He has prepared his deadly weapons;
he makes ready his flaming arrows.
14 Whoever is pregnant with evil
conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.
15 Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out
falls into the pit they have made.
16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
their violence comes down on their own heads.
17 I will give thanks to the LORD because of his righteousness;
I will sing the praises of the name of the LORD Most High.

~New International Version (NIV)

~God will answer, I'm certain of it! You kahunas will dread the day when He strikes back against you that harass and torment me everyday, all day, all night, all year long! If the Lord is for me, who can be against me?

~I say again Sisi and Patrick you will answer to Him, God my vindicator. What crime have I committed against you and your kahunas? What life(s) have I ruined found within your society, tribe or village of kahunas? What cardinal sin have I not repented from, other than rebuking you kahunas with foul language in particular, I've have been cleansed and purified from by my Almighty Father, Lord God my Judge, and the ultimate redeemer of my life. You kahunas are neither in any position to be my judge, nor redeemer over my life, role(s) that you pathetically believe you have rights to!

~You are completely mistaken!

~It is God who's responsible to "probe the minds and hearts of mankind," and this includes you wicked kahunas that you've become Sisi and Patrick! May you and allied kahunas suffer the consequences of your deceitful, oppressive and defiant actions!

~Don't instruct me on how to write a college term paper, don't instruct me in how to mow my lawn, chop/split wood, falsely accuse me in being lost while driving here in Washington State-as if I've never lived here before 2001. Don't falsely accuse me in NOT being Samoan or a non-family member to you both Sisi and Patrick, because it makes you both LIARS! Moreover, don't falsely accuse me of NOT being a US Navy Veteran that was part of "Operation Desert Storm," because it only means that I was part of a campaign that made our world a safer place to live in at that time. An honorable, devotional call to duty that you and your kahuna friends obviously find little or nothing to be grateful for.

~Do yourselves a favor and take a pill, fall into a very deep and lasting coma, one in which you all so well deserve, so I can finally be left alone to live happily in this life!

God Speed,
Mickey Tovio Scanlan