Well Kendall, it is possible, I know we've got ex-aircraft ground crew, we've got ex-signals branch/radio operators, we've got ex-artillery. All of whom would have come across such munitions had they existed - so far not one response to say that they did.

Chemical/biological weapons are terribly unreliable, totally indiscriminate and as much a danger to your own troops as the enemy. Very early on in the "Cold War", NATO discounted their use, but the Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries did not. To counter the threat of them using such weapons the strategic and tactical response was use of tactical nuclear weapons which were much more reliable. The "opposition" was made aware of what the response would be.

In the time I spent in the forces, I never once saw any instruction, or procedure for the storage , handling, arming and deployment of any type of chemical/biological ordinance or munitions. Working in NATO that meant we handled ammunition for all member countries. All munitions are colour coded, I can tell you the codings for passive EM, Armoured piercing, High Explosive, smoke munitions - I cannot tell you the colour coding for chemical/biological munitions because NATO did not have any - that goes back to the 1960's.

We did receive plenty of training in how to operate under chemical/biological attack, which is totally understandable as we knew the opposition definitely had such weapons - that is where Saddam Hussein got his technology from - Not the US.