Grey rubbery like thing in body bag

I was stationed on the USS Forrestal in 1974, we were deployed in the Med.  I was a mess cook at the time of this event.
The day this happened myself an 2 other guys were directed to go to the flight deck, we waited around an a helo landed an these people got off maybe 5 I saw at least 1 woman but we didn't know who an why.  we got a palate jack an took it to one of our milk refer we pulled back the tarp an there was 3 body bags, we hooked them one by one on a hoist over the hole an put them in the refer, on the way down some kind of fluid came out an got on us, like kids we wanted to see what was in side so we made an opening an looked in, it looked grey an wrinkly,it felt rubbery,an smelled of iron or metal like a iron pill bottle,I couldn't sleep good after that an since then I've be trying to tell my doctors at the V.A. on the ship  no one will listen its all in my records insomnia, depressionI could go on for hours but i'll stop, I have a buzz in my rt. ear still today like radio static up an down periodicly,night mares of bright orange light..
Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.  PD