Unpublished study finds elevated cancer rates at US military base
reuters.com
As a veteran, it is frustrating to deal with the government to prove exposure to toxins.
The PACT Act was meant to streamline all of this but the burden still falls on the veteran. How many have been exposed knowingly but due to the military not acknowledging it, can not get the required compensation for the problems?
Well, happy Veterans Day.
Knew where it’d be just from the headline. Lejeune is just infamous at this point
Really? I'd be surprised if there wasn't elevated cancer rates at every military base. There's so much health and safety stuff that the military just completely ignores.
Not a surprise. I took my dad to a VA hospital for an appointment. We checked him in and sat in the waiting area. Because I'm a nerd, I had a Geiger counter in my backpack. I took it out and turned it on. As soon as it finished booting up, the alarm went off.
Normal background radiation where I live is usually around 0.08 micro-Sieverts/hour. My alarm threshold is 0.30 ( not dangerous, but interesting). My reading in that lobby? It was a whopping 9.23!
were you near radiology by chance?
Unfortunately, no. And I've run this counter during an x-ray. It didn't get anywhere near as high, and it was aimed at me.
Take that Geiger counter close to most old concrete sometime. Now think of what these old buildings are made of.
Not even close.
Marines are notorious for taking other branches discarded installations and facilities, even those not suitable for habitation, and using them.
They have soldiers and contractors literally working in Superfund sites.
Yeah, that happens when you’ve got JP-8 running through the tap water lines.
You may be entitled to compensation
Not surprised by this at all. I remember when a High School built a new multimillion dollar school in Ohio on an old base and all the sudden people started getting sick and cancer. Come to find out there was a bunch of buried toxic chemicals and it became a super site in Marion Ohio. Happens more then it should