EOD selection rose from 22.9 percent last year to 37.2 percent this year, while SWCC selection also rose from 21.3 percent to 25.4 percent. Tim Szymanski, enlisted community manager for these communities. It will provide a big boost for retention, which has been drastically declining the past few years. It's all part of an information campaign to let service members talk directly to someone to get information about the program. The problem is that when you're not getting a steady flow of information from the Department of Defense side, but you are getting it from the other side, it starts to plant a seed of doubt.
Anthrax is a unique bacterium that can form a spore.
That endospore makes it very viable for use in a biological weapon. It can be stored for many years. Once it's inhaled and symptoms develop, it's almost certain that you won't survive the exposure. Other viruses don't have the capability that anthrax does. For example, a virus carried by conventional weapon doesn't survive detonation well.