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What Lies Beneath: Key findings of AP's investigation

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Soldiers working at a military base in California believed their water was safe to drink. Decades later, veterans with rare cancers are questioning the army’s claim that contamination posed no threat. Read the takeaways from the AP investigation.

February 23, 2022 GMT

Crumbling barracks line a field at Fort Ord on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. Many veterans of Fort Ord who believe their cancers were caused by exposure to chemicals at the base have been denied disability and medical benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Crumbling barracks line a field at Fort Ord on Thursday, April 29, 2021, in Fort Ord, Calif. Many veterans of Fort Ord who believe their cancers were caused by exposure to chemicals at the base have been denied disability and medical benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Associated Press reviewed thousands of pages of documents, interviewed nearly two dozen veterans and consulted military, medical and environmental scientists as it investigated the connection between toxic substances at California’s Fort Ord and illnesses among those who lived and worked there.— Fort Ord, a decommissioned U.S. Army base in Central California, was polluted with toxic chemicals that leached into the groundwater and eventually the base’s drinking water.

— The military says no, based on a 25-year-old public health risk assessment. The CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry concluded in 1996 that there were no likely past, present or future risks from exposures at the base. Since then, research into the dangers of those chemicals has advanced.

 

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My father got Lymphoma - he was at Camp Lejeune from 1959-1963, his battle with Cancer has just begun. He got a letter from the department of defense stating the same for North Carolina. It was more than the water… the VA doesn't do enough.

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The govt would never lie, as their enablers you know this best :)

Gonna go out on a limb here; but you probably shouldn't ever hear the words 'contaminated but safe' and feel comforted.

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