Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way. I'm John Bachelor. This is CBSi in the world.

Colonel Jeff McCausen, my colleague and friend is here to help me understand a new study that has been announced in Great

Britain by the Ministry of Defence described as the world first discovery of a

faulty cell function in veterans suffering from the Gulf War syndrome.

Heretofore, it's been a series of symptoms and there was in Britain a decision early on in the century that there was no

evidence that this was all linked together. Symptoms included insomnia, chronic fatigue, joint pain, headaches, mood swings.

All that together now is understood as cell damage, possibly by the chemical and or poison toxic in the air of the veterans.

This is a 33,000 British Gulf War veterans are living with the syndrome according to the times of London.

Jeff, what is the status of our treatment of those suffering from the Gulf War Syndrome. You were there right up front.

Yeah, I was there John right up front. Some of the guys in my particular battalion I commanded

ever told me that they feel they are suffering from those particular symptoms.

It has been acknowledged by the Veterans Administration

as a legitimate ailment.

In the United States at least, some of this has been tied to a larger phenomenon coming out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from so-called burn pits, which were pits were used where you burned everything you can think of and the toxic gases that were emitted from that. But in the United

States of the roughly 700,000 or so U.S. veterans who served in the goal for, about a quarter

of a million claim at least to have endured one of those

chronic some mild symptoms that you mentioned a couple of moments ago and when

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