Sailors and Marines of the amphibious assault ship USS Tortuga were inoculated against anthrax and smallpox in the Gulf Wednesday as the military gathered its forces for a possible war against Iraq. “It makes it very real when they start giving you vaccinations for things you hadn’t even heard of before,” said 22-year-old Carrie Cornell, a third class petty officer from Philadelphia, after her smallpox jab. A medical technician administers the inoculation with a two pronged needle, jabbing the patient’s shoulder 15 times to pierce the skin without going too deep. Full Story