2024 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 18:34:21 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: George Air Force Base (CA) "is now a desolate wasteland"
 
Hazardous Air Force base that potentially poisoned thousands has become desolate wasteland

By Anna Young
New York Post
September 28, 2024

A former Air Force base responsible for potentially exposing hundreds of thousands to toxic chemicals is now a desolate wasteland that has remained abandoned in California for 32 years.

Newly resurfaced footage of George Air Force Base shows housing complexes, medical buildings, recreational facilities and other areas abandoned and riddled with debris, graffiti and broken glass with windows shattered, doors broken, ceilings caved in and walls destroyed. 

“This place kind of freaks me out a little bit,” the content creator said while tripping over shattered glass. “There was asbestos issues that’s why I’m not going through stuff too in-depth because I don’t want to get asbestos poising.”

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For the entire article, see
https://nypost.com/2024/09/28/us-news/george-air-force-base-remains-abandoned-after-exposing-thousands-to-toxix/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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