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The following is a personal story submitted to Civilian Exposure and published as part…

The following is a personal story submitted to Civilian Exposure and published as part…

The Pentagon’s handling of munitions and their waste has poisoned millions of acres, and…

Chanute AFB is back in the news this week. According to the latest report, officials have publicly stated that “it is known that chemical warfare training took place” on the base. They are now planning various searches and testing for leftover storage containers and will determine if any groundwater contamination occurred as a result.

The former Pease Air Force Base is located in Portsmouth and Newington, New Hampshire. The facility officially closed in April 1991 under the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Act of 1988. Wastes generated by the U.S. Air Force when the facility was active have contaminated soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment across the former base. PFC problems persist.

The following is information curated on the topic of Esophageal Cancer, one of the 15 health conditions covered by the VA for Camp Lejeune victims. The information is collected from various scientific resources, including the Mayo Clinic, the NIH, MD Anderson, the Oxford Journal and others.

From author Mike Magner comes this fresh and revealing look at the ongoing tragic consequences of decades of water contamination and neglect at Camp Lejeune, NC.  Anyone that picks up this book will shake their heads in disbelief as to the extent of this contamination and the denials involved.  Plus, it poses the question we’ve already been asking here at Civilian Exposure…is this just the tip of the iceberg?  How many more military bases and installations have suffered from toxic contamination.  How many military and civilian employees around the country have been exposed and are now suffering serious health problems as a result?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) just released a new report confirming the link between contaminated tap water at Camp Lejeune to an increased risk of serious birth defects and childhood cancers.  The study examined a number of children (almost 13,000 sample size) between 1999 and 2002.

When Congressman Kurt Schrader went home to his district in Portland, Oregon to listen to constituents at a recent town hall meeting, he heard something new.  It appears that veterans and civilians at other bases are starting to speak up about toxic exposure at other installations during their service.  Schrader heard from several veterans who were concerned about exposure while stationed at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan from 1985-2001.