[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, VETERANS: "Trump Directs Pentagon to Study Toxins at K2 Base" (Uzbekistan)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

On Final Day In Office, Trump Directs Pentagon to Study Toxins at K2 Base


By  Patricia Kime
Military.com
January 22,  2021

On his final full day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Defense Department to study the environmental exposures of U.S. troops who served in Uzbekistan in the early 2000s, a step that could pave the way for ill veterans to receive benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Trump's penultimate executive order requires the DoD to assess pollutants at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, or K2, from Oct. 1, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2005 -- the period when American personnel served at the former Soviet and Uzbek base in support of the Afghanistan War.

According to veterans assigned there, the base was a toxic cesspool where a thick black liquid seeped through the soil, and a runoff pond and the ground glowed the same shade of green as a glow stick.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/22/final-day-office-trump-directs-pentagon-study-toxins-k2-base.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org





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