Soldiers are asked to put their life on the line to protect our country with the promise they will be taken care of through their military benefits. Yet many vets suffer the misfortune of having time delayed symptoms like Gulf War Syndrome from their time of war, but the military makes it hard for war vets to qualify for proper medical attention.

Gulf War syndrome (GWS) is a widely used term referring to the unexplained illnesses occurring in Gulf War veterans. The Pentagon denies that U.S. soldiers were exposed to chemical and biological warfare agents during the Gulf war, but its own records contradict the official line. Gulf War syndrome, affecting a number of men and women who served in the Persian Gulf War, represents a group of medical and psychological complaints including fatigue, respiratory illness, muscular pain, spasms, skin rash, memory loss, dizziness, peripheral numbness, and sleep disturbances. There is also an increased number of birth defects in their children. Brain cancer deaths, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and fibromyalgia are now recognized by the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments as potentially connected to service in the Persian Gulf War.

PB or NAPP antidote pills given to protect troops from nerve agents and military strength insecticides used during deployment have currently been most closely linked to Gulf War veterans' chronic multi-symptom illness. Currently many Gulf War vets are going without proper treatment because of all the military medical loopholes the VA system has put in place, which prevent the proper treatment for soldiers like spouse income level. However soldiers weren't promised medical care for their time of service only if their family was under a particular tax braket. They kept their side of the agreement, which was to fight wherever the government saw fit to send them. Now it's the military's job to take care of them!

According to the Institute of Medicine, "It is clear that a significant portion of the soldiers deployed to the Gulf War have experienced troubling constellations of symptoms that are difficult to categorize," said committee chair Stephen L. Hauser, professor and chair, department of neurology, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "Unfortunately, symptoms that cannot be easily quantified are sometimes incorrectly dismissed as insignificant and receive inadequate attention and funding by the medical and scientific establishment. Veterans who continue to suffer from these symptoms deserve the very best that modern science and medicine can offer to speed the development of effective treatments, cures, and—we hope—prevention.