@JTT,
This particular paragraph was extra funny:
"One weapon system that may use uranium, in some form or another, is the SMAW-NE (Shoulder-fired Multipurpose Assault Weapon -- Novel Explosive). My former unit battle-tested this weapon for the first time in Fallujah during Operation Phantom Fury in 2004. It is not my intention irresponsibly to lay blame on the US military, but there is a potential connection between this weapons system and the health crisis in Fallujah -- and this connection needs to be investigated."
The reason I found it so funny was because
that is the thermobaric weapon that the US used to flash-fry the contents of so many houses in Fallujah.
I guess a broken clock really is right twice a day.
I'm not sure why he was yammering about uranium though.
It is very unlikely that any uranium ammo was used at Fallujah. Uranium ammo is usually only used when we are facing enemy tanks.
Further, uranium ammo is something completely different from the thermobaric weapon that he was talking about.
Uranium ammo uses its hardness and density to punch through heavy armor, bursting into flame from the force of the impact. This results in heavy pieces of flaming metal bouncing around the inside of a tank at high velocities, killing the crew and igniting the tank's fuel and ammo.
Thermobaric weapons use bomb casings filled with rocket fuel instead of high explosive, with only a small explosive charge at the center to ignite the fuel and send it spraying outwards.
The result is a highly intense fireball of burning rocket fuel. It is short lived, as rocket fuel tends to burn fast. But it is
extremely hot: over 4,000 degrees (I forget if that is Celsius or Fahrenheit).
Note my above picture of a test of a thermobaric bomb on a mock bunker. You can see at the top where the bomb penetrated moments before, and there is a blazing hot fireball boiling out of the entrance of the bunker.
Anyone caught up in a thermobaric fireball reliably gets third-degree burns over their entire body. And if they happen to inhale any burning rocket fuel, that's the end of their lungs as well.
The lethality is outstanding, and following the success of the devices in Fallujah, we've been using thermobaric warheads in most of our Pakistani DroneStrikes.
But anyway, getting back to Fallujah, we didn't face any tanks in Fallujah, so it is rather unlikely that we deployed any anti-tank armaments like uranium ammo.
However, Fallujah was the big coming out party for thermobaric weapons. Every time our soldiers encountered resistance from a house, they would pull back a ways, blast a hole in an exterior wall using a traditional shaped charge bazooka, and then fire a thermobaric warhead through that hole.
One extremely bright fireball later, and the occupants of the house were all nicely charbroiled. On to the next house.
By the end of the battle, every single terrorist in Fallujah was "extra crispy".