[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) health claim persistence

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Persistence urged in filing claim

HOPE HODGE
Jacksonville Daily News (NC)
July 8, 2010

A former Navy officer who spent more than two years at the Camp Lejeune 
Naval Hospital said his successful water contamination VA claim was 
helped by relentless determination and a cadre of toxicology experts.

Jim Watters, associate dean for Graduate Medicine at the Texas Tech 
University School of Medicine in Lubbock, Texas, was not about to take 
"no" for an answer the first time he submitted a claim for kidney cancer 
to the VA regional office in Waco, Texas. Nor did he accept it the 
second time.

Or the third.

Watters was stationed at the Camp Lejeune Naval Hospital as an 
administrative officer in the Naval Medical Service Corps from 1977 to 
1977. Though Watters and his family lived off-base, he said, he spent 
two-and-a-half years drinking base water and showering in it daily.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.jdnews.com/news/span-80250-class-claim.html

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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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