"Grandpa, there's some metal in my food,"
Green Beret finds mercury
in meat from commissary
The military has launched an investigation into the discovery of a liquid metal that appeared to be mercury in a package of ground beef sold to a former Green Beret by a base store at Homestead Air Force Reserve Base in Florida.
"What troops consume is very important," Judd Anstey, a spokesman for the Army Air Force Exchange Service, told WND. "Our office is investigating as well as the vendor."
"We're certainly all very concerned about what this customer believes he found," added Anstey, whose AAFES organization runs many of the military commissaries providing staples to service members.
The report comes from Pat Heminger, a former Green Beret with 23 years in the U.S. Army. Now retired, he and his wife live not far from Homestead, where during the week they take care of grandchildren ages 6 and 8, whose parents work at a hospital.