[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HEALTH: U.S. Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, Japan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marine Spouse Battles Navy Over Contamination at Naval Base in Japan


Shelly Parulis, wife of a retired Marine Master Sergeant, is engaged in 
a running battle with the Navy over dioxin and other toxins at NAF 
Atsugi, Japan.

Robert O'Dowd
Salem-News.com
July 4, 2009

(ATSUGI, Japan) - No one assigned to Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi, 
the home of Carrier Air Wing 5, would have suspected that duty in Japan 
could exposed them to toxic chemicals, including deadly dioxin, the 
carcinogen infamously associated with Agent Orange.

In fact, prior to the closure of Atsugi’s privately owned Envirotech 
(formerly Shinkampo) incinerators in 2001, that is exactly what happened 
to military, dependents, and civilian workers stationed at NAF Atsugi 
during the period 1985 to 2001. Your browser may not support display of 
this image.

NAF Atsugi is located on Honshu, the main island of Japan. The base, 
about 20 miles from Tokyo, was originally built in 1938 by the Japanese 
Imperial Navy as Emperor Hirohito's Naval Air Base to address the threat 
posed by foreseen American bombing raids of the Japanese mainland.

Shelly Parulis, a spouse of a retired Marine Master Sergeant who was 
stationed at Atsugi from 1995 to 1998, and her family suffered the 
results of toxic exposure and leads the effort to obtain compensation 
and health benefits for Atsugi veterans, dependents ad civilian workers.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july042009/atsugi_naf_ro_7-4-09.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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