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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3779848" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Back in the day watches were issued to some military, mostly officers with radium on the hands and numbers so they could be observed at night without a flashlight. A little flip lid was on the watch to keep it covered. </p><p>My last duty station was Ft Leavenworth, home of the command and general staff college where field grade officers, Lt. Colonel and above came to learn war tactics for a year. </p><p>With prior training in radioactive issues with electronics, one of my assigned jobs was to interview each during their initial entry to the base to see if they had one of the watches as a lot did at that time in the 70's and were highly coveted. They got really mad when they found out regulations required them to be turned in, or face punishment, especially when that info came from an E-5 and I insisted it come off their wrist. </p><p>A Geiger counter was used by our group to confirm that it was indeed radium and radioactive. </p><p>Would it hurt you? There was that possibility and the long term effects of radiation poisoning wasn't fully understood at that time which formed that response to take them away. Truth is now that they were very unlikely to have caused harm to the owners.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 3779848, member: 5412"] Back in the day watches were issued to some military, mostly officers with radium on the hands and numbers so they could be observed at night without a flashlight. A little flip lid was on the watch to keep it covered. My last duty station was Ft Leavenworth, home of the command and general staff college where field grade officers, Lt. Colonel and above came to learn war tactics for a year. With prior training in radioactive issues with electronics, one of my assigned jobs was to interview each during their initial entry to the base to see if they had one of the watches as a lot did at that time in the 70's and were highly coveted. They got really mad when they found out regulations required them to be turned in, or face punishment, especially when that info came from an E-5 and I insisted it come off their wrist. A Geiger counter was used by our group to confirm that it was indeed radium and radioactive. Would it hurt you? There was that possibility and the long term effects of radiation poisoning wasn't fully understood at that time which formed that response to take them away. Truth is now that they were very unlikely to have caused harm to the owners. [/QUOTE]
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