If families are important, if people are important, we should be willing to pay what's necessary. We should be willing to make the appropriate investment in our people.

During that demolition operation, there were no reports of chemical munitions, nor were there reports of anyone experiencing symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical agents.

In retrospect, it is clear that fallout from the oil well fires could affect detection equipment and could have caused many of the chemical alerts recorded by the 11th Marines.

Put pieces of the information together. The bunker had destroyed chemical munitions. We destroyed the bunker. Well, I guess I have to conclude that there were chemical weapons destroyed.

Out of 500 people in our outfit, I was the only one who could splice rope.

We have to be careful and people must be prudent to use only official outlets.