] 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. more classified submarine information from my local paper. |