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The Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses has released an environmental exposure report that examines service members' exposure to chemical agent-resistant coating, or CARC, paint fumes and the possible connection between those exposures and the illnesses some veterans have experienced since the Persian Gulf War.
Several thousand vehicles and pieces of equipment deployed to the Gulf region had to be quickly repainted from the three-colored woodland camouflage paint scheme to desert camouflage prior to the start of the Gulf War. The desert paint was a urethane-based chemical CARC, which makes up...