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To: Ilaine who wrote (4437)	2/21/2003 7:35:40 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

The average age of the grunts (guys running around carrying rifles) in the infantry is about 20. The average age of the National Guard is 36. So, you DO agree with me that whatever symptoms Gulf War Veterans are suffering from, they are unrelated to aging in the decade that passed? My second thought [on Gulf Syndrome] is that they [soldiers] are older than they were when they went overseas, and getting older leads to aches and pains. It's a natural part of aging, especially if you are sedentary, which most Americans are. Message 18602640 Anyway, we're wandering far afield from where we started. If you do not wish to "wander far afield" next time, try not to give as examples your 50 year old reserve army lawyer friends, when I suggest aging cannot be the reason for Gulf Syndrome since the soldiers who served in Iraq were not old enough to have come to years where you have pain and aches due to age.