If you're a soldier, you belong to the government

And they can do whatever they want with you. Especially if you're a member of a minority.

“The Army still has not provided notice to test subject veterans regarding the specific chemical and biological tests to which they were subjected[between 1942 and 1975] — and their possible health effects,” attorney Ben Patterson of the law firm Morrison and Foerster told NPR.

The military conducted these experiments because it wanted to learn how to induce “fear, panic, hysteria and hallucinations” in enemy soldiers, an Army scientist told NPR.

At least 70,000 troops were used in the experiments, a 2015 NPR report found.

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At least 4,000 American troops were exposed to mustard gas during World War II. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the Defense Department declassified those experiments.

Mustard gas causes “blistering of the skin and mucous membranes on contact,”according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and “may increase a person’s risk for lung and respiratory cancer.”

A 2015 PBS investigation found that minorities including African-Americans, Japanese-Americans and Puerto Ricans were singled out for experimentation.

  RT

How democratic.  Perhaps they used the white guys as a control group?

And not to mention the soldiers who were exposed to radiation from the nuclear bomb testing in the 50s, among other experiments.