Oh, and lemme tell you a little story about something that happened in Iraq. It happened to the guys I was replacing about 72 hours before my unit arrived in theater, but the incident report was shared with my unit, so it's documented and NOT ANECDOTAL.
One night, they got a call for an "asphalt farmer" trying to sow his seed in the evening hours. Hit him with the x-spray, and he popped hot for explosives (he actually claimed it's because he was a farmer that he popped hot with the x-spray).
So, while the appropriate people were logging him into BATS/HIDES, my guys were able to identify a burster collar on the round he had placed. Basic ord ID, and it had the key ID features of a chem round. A swipe of the chem paper showed it was mustard, with a definitive lack of hot dog vendors in the AO. Four days later, the asphalt farmer (who's now in custody) had blisters all over his arms and chest exactly where you'd expect for where he'd have carried a mustard round. Tried blaming the x-spray for it, too.
My point is that guy didn't pick up the shell at a yard sale. When we had the initial barn storming in 2003, all the ordnance that Saddam was in possession of wound up getting looted by gen pop, just like the museum in Baghdad and anywhere else they could get in. That includes all the chem rounds that Saddam never got rid of after Gulf War 1.0. Thankfully, hajji usually didn't know what he had when the mustards found their way into IEDs.
And before you say that was a one off, I'll remind you that a couple of my brothers in the 710th, to include a couple of guys from the security element got bit by mustard while I was on that deployment, too. No WMDs my fat white ass.
