Following Presidential Special Oversight Board guidance, we further investigated this incident and rewrote the narrative with new information gathered since this paper’s original publication in August 1997. Changes from the previous version include:

• The location of the suspect bunker appears to be in Kuwait, not in Iraq as reported in the initial investigation.
• The bunkers were built after Iraq’s August 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
• We did not interview Colonel Dunn during the original investigation of this incident. In writing the original narrative, we relied solely on Colonel Dunn’s written account of the events surrounding his examination of PFC Fisher.  However, we did provide him a copy of the narrative to review before we published it, and he provided no comments about the findings. We subsequently interviewed him by telephone after we published the original narrative.  For this narrative, we interviewed Colonel Dunn in person. He maintained his original diagnosis was correct.
• We contacted and re-interviewed PFC Fisher.
• This paper refutes statements in the original narrative about a second urinalysis reportedly accomplished in-theater. This further investigation established Colonel Dunn conducted the only urinalysis associated with this incident.
• This narrative includes photographs Major DeClue and Colonel Dunn took of PFC Fisher’s blisters.
• This narrative includes a still photo taken from the videotape of the MM-1 screen showing a spectrum for distilled sulfur mustard (HD) during a Fox test for chemical warfare agent of PFC Fisher’s flak jacket.
• We located the MM-1 printout for the coveralls test and transcribed it for inclusion in this narrative in Tab F.
• We transcribed ion intensity data from the videotape showing the spectrum for sulfur mustard (HD) during the test of PFC Fisher’s flak jacket. Spectrometry experts examined this transcribed data and commented for this narrative. The transcribed data appears in Tab H.

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