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Latest Complete News Updates Today Up to a million people may have been affected by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune Marine Base in Jacksonville, NC. No one would mistake the football gridiron for a combat zone...Latest Complete News Updates Today Up to a million people may have been affected by... more
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Former Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Devereaux was told about a year ago that he had just two or three years to live.
More than 12 months later, at 48, he still isn't ready to concede that the cancer that's wasting his innards is going to kill him. He swallows his pills and suffers the pain and each afternoon he greets his 12-year-old daughter, Jackie, as she steps off her school bus in North Andover, Mass.
The U.S. Department of the Navy says that more research is needed to connect ailments suffered by Marines such as Devereaux who served at Camp Lejeune and their families who lived there to decades of water contamination at the 156,000-acre base in eastern North Carolina. Meanwhile, however, the Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly begun awarding benefits to a few Marines who were based at Lejeune.
"Right now, I would venture to say that any Camp Lejeune veteran who files a claim now is presumed to have been exposed to the contaminated drinking water," Brad Flohr, the assistant director for policy, compensation and pension service at the VA, told a meeting of affected Marines and family members in April.
It's estimated that as many as a million people were exposed to the water from the 1950s to the 1980s. The water was laced with trichloroethylene, known as TCE; tetrachloroethylene, known as PCE; benzene and other volatile organic chemicals.
READ MORE AND COMMENT AT CIVICANIMAL.COMFormer Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Devereaux was told about a year ago that he had just... more
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(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - We have been writing for years about the plight of sick and dying Marines who were stationed at the now-closed El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California, and the active base, Camp Lejuene in North Carolina. In both cases, toxic water has caused a variety of diseases and illnesses among Marines, their families, and others who worked at the base as civilians.
The federal government has been doing its best to duck the issue. Early on, there was recognition of the problems resulting from Camp Lejeune's deadly toxic water contamination, but then a few months ago, the DoD put together a panel of scientists who claimed that all previous data on Lejeune was no longer valid[1].
Since that point, senators and aggressive Veterans Advocates like former Camp Lejeune Marine Jerry Ensminger and Camp Lejeune breast cancer Survivor Mike Partain, have kept the pressure on government officials up. Soon there was another turnaround, as information surfaced that the Marines had essentially, paid for more favorable reports[2].
In some cases they have been responsive, in others they haven't, and sometimes the legislation fails to address the real issues, or makes compromises in the wrong areas[3].
Today The Associated Press shocked the nation by revealing that, "An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review."
The AP cites how the Marine Corps was warned nearly a decade earlier about the dangerously high levels of benzene. This chemical is connected to massive leaks from base fuel tanks, according to recently disclosed studies.(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - We have been writing for years about the plight of sick and... more
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Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, the main suspect in the killing of 20-year-old (pregnant) Marine Maria Lauterbach was captured in Mexico. Lauterbach's charred body, and that of her fetus were found in a pit in Laurean's backyard in North Carolina. He fled to Mexico and survived eating fruits and avocados and hiding in fields.Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, the main suspect in the killing of 20-year-old (pregnant)... more
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Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, the pregnant Marine who was missing from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is dead, the Onslow County sheriff said today. The 20-year-old woman last spoke to relatives from Dayton, Ohio on December 14th and was reported missing by her mother on December 20th.
Lauterbach had accused 21-year-old Cpl. Cesar Armando Lauren, a fellow Marine, of sexual assault. Lauren is currently not in custody and was last seen near Camp Lejeune about eight hours before authorities starting looking for him.
Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, the pregnant Marine who was missing from Camp Lejeune,... more
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