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Gulf War Illness Following the 1991 Gulf War, many returning troops began to report a range of unexplained illnesses that they believed might have resulted from their service. During his tenure as Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1993-2002, Senator Rockefeller led the effort to pressure the Department of Defense to acknowledge that Gulf War veterans were returning with serious illnesses. He pushed the VA to create a registry to track illnesses in veterans and their families, and he helped pass the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act, which called for ongoing research into the effects of chemicals on soldiers, and extended that research to include spouses and the children of veterans. |
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