| ] If it were a real mission involving weapons of mass] destruction instead of an exercise, Chief Hospital
 ] Corpsman Donald Abele would have needed better protection
 ] than dishwashing gloves, a painter's coveralls and a gas
 ] mask.
 ]
 ] But Abele was just trying to prove a concept: that Navy
 ] Seals could set up a chemical analysis laboratory inside
 ] one of the Florida's huge missile tubes where they could
 ] test soil samples from suspect sites without ever
 ] bringing the material inside the boat.
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