I know that a contracting company came to Kef. in 1973 to test the air quality in the display room. I remember having the evening watch and those technicians placed small canisters that sucked air in at various places (sort of like small canister vacuum cleaners) and they had white filters at their end. The technicians said they would be alright and they would get them tomorrow. Ha! Toward the end of the evening watch and into the beginning of the mid watch those filters were black and the vacuums were screaming. The technicians were found at one of the clubs and were called out to the site. They couldn't believe it at first. To my recollection, nobody heard results of that study. So, someone's got the data somewhere as to levels of contaminates etc. I am 68and have numerous bouts with bronchitis, pneumonia and Upper Respiratory Infections(URI's). I have always wondered about this, but in joining some of these groups, I think there is something there. Thanks to all you that served. You won that Cold War!
Of interest. I still have an actuator, complete with dirty carbon dust and installed vacuum hoses. Retrieved it from DRMO when we closed NAVFAC Keflavik in 1996. It's been in a box in my garage except for once or twice when I displayed it at reunions.
I am wondering if it could be tested now to determine if the types of carbon we were exposed to is or is not dangerous.
Jim in addition to carbon dust, there seemed to be alot of ozone in the area of the consoles. Can't help but wonder when I see the effect of ozone on materials exposed to the gas when its used for water purification.
I am not one to defend unsafe working conditions, like the carbon dust we all inhaled, and the dust from cleaning out the furnace, cleaning the overhead lights for inspections. Or walking/standing for hours at a time, but one thing I know for sure that many of us smoked, drank, and partied too much, but at least we were not in a war zone as a "tunnel rat", or are fighting "Agent Orange". Just my thoughts.
CEC
J.A.Daniel Smith said it best when he uttered his famous saying that:
"We drank coffee from Daylight to Dark and we drank alcohol sometimes from Dark to Daylight and most of us had a cigarette with each and every beverage all while having the times of our lives. What do we expect our health to be".
JAD had it right and Chuck's post just reinforces that we had it made and have no right to complain at this stage.
