Talk:Operation Whitecoat

Desmond Doss paragraph removal
This paragraph has nothing to do with Operation Whitecoat at all. I am removing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.170.245 (talk) 12:38, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Neutrality
The Operation Whitecoat Article fails to discuss the double edged reason for enacting the program. On the one hand, there was a quest for vaccines against potential bioweapons (and this view is adequately described). On the other hand, data in the project was used to improve the weapon capacity of the American germ warfare program (this view is not discussed, but is fully outlined in the American Experience source noted within the article). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.216.147.189 (talk) 00:09, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. I'll work on this later. Jrtayloriv (talk) 05:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

This article also does not address that the remaining Whitecoats still meet biannually to talk about thier thier contribution to the war. In addition, Fort Detrick is not a closed installation. Anyone can get onto the campus with a valid government ID. --70.41.179.243 (talk) 02:07, 18 June 2009 (UTC) cd...

Son in whitecoats died of vicious cancer
I visited my son in his tour of duty with the white coats.I was given a tour and saw him canulizing the liver of a rat.It was an experiment in cancer therapy.He showed me a medium sized monkey in a cage he was caring for. He stated it had bitten him.This was a secret project.He told my daughter,Later that the monkey had been infected by the Ebola virus and an aids like virus.He died in 2000 of the worst rapid spreading cancer that I have seen in 40 years of medical practice.He was buried in a military cemetary on 09/11/2000. I probably will not be able to get his classified hospital records.I continue to research this to help give me closure of the worst experience a parent can experience in the loss of a child. Ivan L Reeve MD of Blue Jay Ca —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.140.1.142 (talk) 06:41, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Soldiers or conscientious objectors ?
The article seems self-contradictory. The summary says all the volunteer were conscientious objectors, while, according to the first section, they were soldiers, trained medics, and were given 2 weeks leave. --Lysytalk 16:45, 23 May 2010 (UTC

My father was a Operation Whitecoat volunteer and was infected with Q-Fever. At the time, he was both a U.S. Army Medic and a Seventh Day Adventist. As a Seventh Day Adventist, he was a conscientious objector; therefore, he served as a Medic which is a non-combatant role. Conscientious Objectors often served in combat but didn't carry a gun. The article should be more clear on this particular role since it's easy to confuse conscientious objectors with those individuals who refused to serve at all.

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Nazi German and Japanese war criminals missing here
Why is there no mention of war criminals "scientist" pardoned and used in this operation? 78.80.26.123 (talk) 00:31, 10 April 2020 (UTC)