[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, FUELS, VOCs: One Air Force veteran's story

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CHEMICAL EXPOSURE: ONE VETERAN'S STORY

posted by Robert O'Dowd
Veterans Today
October 26, 2010

Chemical exposure can make you very sick and even kill you.  Steven is 
an Air Force veteran, 1978-1982, whose hands shake and is sick with 
pancreatic disease.  In the Air Force, Steven worked with fuels and 
trichloroethylene (TCE), a known carcinogen

....

Steven's  story is worth retelling.  You won't find anything like it on 
any recruiting flyers:

"I was a Fuels Specialist AFSC (USAF) Grand Forks North Dakota and 
Ramstein Air Base, Germany. My 2nd AFSC was Repro-Graphics Specialist at 
Ramstein.

"I am angry because with pancreatic disease I could die at any time. I 
have had so much time in the hospital, I am very worried I can get sick 
at any time and never come home. My family will never have my benefits.

"Please just use my first name Steven. My rank was E-4 Sergeant (U.S. 
Air Force). I served on active duty from 1978 to 1982."


...

For the entire posting, see
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/26/chemical-exposure-one-veteran%E2%80%99s-story/

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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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