According to the SS website the maximum monthly payment at age 62 is a touch more than $2800/month, the supplement is half that. $2800 a month is $33,600 so half that is $16,800.
I took SS early to pay down debt we accumulated when my wife was out of work from August 1997 - August 2012 due to the effects her service connected disabilities, including PTSD. I get a reduced payment now 3 years after hitting 65.
I worked with NG directly - literally hands-on dealing with double-base propellants - and some of the folks I worked with had been exposed to it for their entire careers at RAAP or Indian Head. I did get so-called "NG headaches" if I stayed too long in poorly ventilated space with the stuff. Can't say I ever heard the heart attack story. In any event, most of the old nitrocellulose and NG based propellants have long since been replaced with compositions that are fare less sensitive (harder to light off or detonate) and containing no NG. Hydroxy-terminated poly-butadiene (HTPB) with toluene, for example.
Gullible? How so??
That must have been great. My buddy in college did drug studies on the weekend for cash, they would pay him to take NG and have a headache to try various remedies on him. Not a bad deal, $300 for a weekend and they fed them and rented them anything they wanted from Blockbuster.
The headaches were not that bad; you felt one coming on and that was your clue to quit handling the stuff for that day.
How did it get into your system, was it from breathing it or skin contact?
Mostly via skin contact, but some from breathing too.
It's an interesting place...I accumulated quite a few stories while working there. The Chief Government Engineer had been there since the plant was opened in WWII!....he picked me to be his successor. The paperwork was all done when a production line accident, that should not have happened, took out five of "my people". I decided it was time to find a different career path.
