Shad

[Jerrel]

The Department of Defense (DoD) is providing this information, at the request of the Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA), to assist the VA in providing healthcare services to qualified veterans and to

assist veterans in establishing service connection for disability claims. The Deployment Health

Support Directorate (DHSD) collected this information from multiple sources and requested that the

military services declassify it to allow its public distribution. The VA accepts this information

provided on location, dates, units and/or ships, and substances involved in this exercise, which

DHSD extracted from classified DoD records, and will provide it to individual veterans as necessary,

but the VA cannot verify its accuracy.

Office of the

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)

Deployment Health Support Directorate

FACT SHEET

For more information

(703) 578 - 8500

(800) 497 - 6261

Version 06-30-2003

Deseret Test Center

Project SHAD

Half Note

Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) was part of the joint service chemical andbiological warfare test program conducted during the 1960s. Project SHAD encompassedtests designed to identify US warships

[Buck52]

I sure hope and pay they do Ms berta

so many vets still hanging on out there .

Jerrel Cook comes to mind.