I spent 16 years in the Air Force where I was severely injured by a myriad of toxic chemicals. If I can help anyone who has been chemically injured, please contact me.

Both my wife Glenda and I are dying slowly of toxic poisoning from my handling of the SR51 sealant used on the Deseal/Reseal fuel tank maintenance program on the F-111's at Amberley outside of Brisbane near Ipswich. I handled the drums as a Stores person from 1982 -1987, plus Glenda would handle my dirty work clothes covered in chemicals and sealant every day and place them in the washing machine.

However the chemicals never left the washing machine and glued to the bowl, just waiting for another load of clothing to wash and contaminate. Glenda now suffers a number of conditions, yet the Air Force, although admitting liability back in 2001, don't want to start looking at the families involved and who are dying or suffering like us every day. Glenda was not able to have any children and to top that off, had to have a hysterectomy at only twenty-nine, while we had tried to start a family during the five years at Amberley.

During my twelve years as a Supplier or Stores person, I handled over two hundred chemicals, fertilizers, herbicides, acids, oxides, gases, sealants, powders, gels, oils and many other toxins, dioxides, radioactive items etc and never once did the RAAF give me any protective clothing, breathing equipment, gloves, over boot covers or head wear covering.

We have no social life as I suffer so many allergies due to the chemicals, so we just exist and not live, while we just wait to die. I can't work due to neurological problems and orthopaedic problems and had to finish working back in 1996, while Glenda had to also stop work and become my Carer.

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