everybody' sick or dead

I got a direct order from Norman G. Schwarzkopf - and he was ordered by the Pentagon - to assign me to clean up the DU mess [after the first Iraq war]...
We've got to decontaminate. We've got to package these vehicles. And we did this. The 144th maintenance, members of the 32nd, members of the 92nd, Med battalion, members of the 12th, members of the TACOM* staff - and everybody's sick or dead. And medical care is still not being provided...
And the 144th guys are out there, basically in their combat boots and cut off cammies, doing the work, because, hey, nobody told them that this stuff was dangerous, and they need to wear full respiratory and skin protection.