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YouTube - Coast Guard offloads 2,500 pounds of marijuana

http://CoastGuardNews.com Miami - Coast Guard Cutter Dolphin crewmembers offload approximately $1.6 million of marijuana at Coast... more

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Thank you for our freedom...

I am posting this in honor of those who served because they wanted to... ONE OF THE BEST EMAILS EVER It is the VETERAN,... more

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Coast Guard Rescue | The Pentagon Channel

Coast Guard Rescue The Coast Guard comes to the rescue of a Navy crewmember.

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Operation Deep Freeze | The Pentagon Channel

Operation Deep Freeze The Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard are again participating in Operation Deep Freeze.

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Hostility rises as Iran launches 2 missiles.

Iran, in a series of military exercises has launched two short range test missiles. Iranian state run television is reporting... more

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Marines Get Breast Cancer from Poisoned Water

TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of discomfort in his chest.

"My wife would hug me, and it became almost unbearable," he said. "I went to a doctor, and they sent me to the oncologist, and they did biopsies on both sides. And then I ended up with a double mastectomy."

Kelly is one of 20 retired U.S. Marines or sons of Marines who once lived at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and who are now suffering from breast cancer, a disease that strikes about one man for every 100 women who get it. Each of the seven men CNN interviewed for this report has had part of his chest removed as part of his treatment, along with chemotherapy, radiation or both.

All 20 fear that water contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals may have caused their illnesses, but the Marine Corps says no link has been found between the contamination and their diseases. Without that link, the men are denied treatment by the Department of Veterans Affairs, which says it can't treat them for a condition that hasn't been shown to have been "service-related."

The men with breast cancer are among about 1,600 retired Marines and Camp Lejeune residents who have filed claims against the federal government. According to congressional investigators, they are seeking nearly $34 billion in compensation for health problems they say stemmed from drinking water at the base that was contaminated with several toxic chemicals, including some the federal government has classified as known or potential cancer-causing agents.

Jerry Ensminger is a former Marine Corps drill instructor who was stationed at the base in 1976, when his daughter, Janey, was born. She died of childhood leukemia at age 9.

"We were being exposed when we went bowling," Ensminger told CNN. "We were being exposed when we went to the commissary. We were being exposed when we went to the PX. And then when we went home, we were being exposed over there."

In 1981, the lab again found "water highly contaminated" -- and added the word "solvents," with an exclamation point. In August 1982, the experts found one sample with levels of trichloroethylene, a degreaser believed to cause cancer, of 1,400 parts per billion. Today's EPA safe level for the substance is five parts per billion.

"Nobody in this world has been more disillusioned than I've been. I feel like I've been betrayed."

more at the linkTAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- For Rick Kelly, the first sign of cancer was a feeling of discomfort in his chest. "My wife would... more