A report on the findings was submitted in April, but the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has yet to release it.
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?
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!
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