[CPEO-MEF] SAMPLING: Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force Global Strike Command: Vandenberg SFB Environmental Sampling Complete


By Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs
April 24, 2024


BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --  
The Missile Community Cancer Study’s (MCCS) environmental sampling at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, found no instances of contamination above regulatory action levels, Air Force Global Strike Command reported today.

The sampling at Vandenberg SFB assessed the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), chemicals that pose a risk to human health.

Vandenberg SFB is home to AFGSC’s 377th Test and Evaluation Group, which supports missile tests, and Air Education and Training Command’s 532nd Training Squadron, which provides missile training to approximately 450 missile operations officers and enlisted missile maintainers every year. Training takes place in simulators that replicate the launch control centers and launch facilities used at AFGSC’s missile bases. Early in the MCCS, members of the missile community noted that sampling efforts focused only on operational missile bases and did not include any tests at Vandenberg, where evaluators, instructors, cadre and students work in facilities and simulators that are similar to those at the three active missile bases and which could contain the same types of contamination.

In response to the concerns, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, Commander of AFGSC, directed U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) researchers include Vandenberg in its sampling efforts. The sampling was completed in February.

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For the entire release, see
https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/Print.aspx?PortalId=18&ModuleId=1814&Article=3755178

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Lenny Siegel
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