Hey Bob,
Glad to have you with us. My grandfather was the Bn CO of one of the 540th's battalions (the one Marion's father wasn't in) which brought me to the site a few years ago. I's a great place for research and fellowship of other WWII (and some other wars) minded history buffs. I'm on pretty regularly (thankfully the Marine network has not blocked Marion's site! You go to the WBG site and you get "You have attempted to access a site which has been blocked in accordance with Marine Corps and DoN policy governing the appropriate use of government information systems. Reason: The Websense category "Message Boards and Forums" is filtered. http://forums.wildbillguarnere.com/index.php?act=idx." I guess Marion's site flys below the radar or perhaps it's because it doesn't have "forum" in the URL. 
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later developing 21 different treatment systems for some 8,000,000 lbs of potentially toxic waste generated by each Space Shuttle launch.
I'm curious about this. In what form is the waste? I would figure most of it in the form of the trail of exhaust from the thing. Is that what you are cleaning up? "Fallout"?