Departing garrison commander at Fort Detrick says sustainability was among her priorities

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Megan Eckstein writes for the Frederick News-Post:

"When I came in, I said, 'if there's something I want to leave behind, it's a culture of sustainability,'" Robinson said last week during a farewell interview before today's change-of-command ceremony, when Col. Allan Darden will take over.

According to Wikipedia:

During World War II, Camp Detrick and the USBWL became the site of intensive biological warfare (BW) research using various pathogens.

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From 1945 to 1955 under Project Paperclip and its successors, the U.S. government recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists and engineers in a variety of fields such as aircraft design, missile technology and biological warfare. Among the specialists in the latter field who ended up working in the U.S. were Walter Schreiber, Erich Traub and Kurt Blome, who had been involved with medical experiments on concentration camp inmates to test biological warfare agents.

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Biological tests performed on Seventh-day Adventists

The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, DOD and other national security agencies studied hundreds of thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances.

The quote from the study:

Many experiments that tested various biological agents on human subjects, referred to as Operation Whitecoat, were carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in the 1950s. The human subjects originally consisted of volunteer enlisted men. However, after the enlisted men staged a sitdown strike to obtain more information about the dangers of the biological tests, Seventh-day Adventists [SDAs] who were conscientious objectors were recruited for the studies.