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Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a ...
Drinking water at Camp Lejeune was heavily contaminated with a number of cancer-causing industrial chemicals, including trichloroethylene or TCE, vinyl chloride and benzene, from 1953 to 1985.
The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [1] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base bathed in and ingested tap water contaminated with harmful chemicals at all concentrations from 240 to 3,400 times ...
More than 93,000 people have filed claims under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which allows people to seek a payout for injuries caused by exposure to toxic water at the Marine Corps Base from mid ...
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune [1] ( / ləˈʒɜːrn / luh-ZHERN or / ləˈʒuːn / luh-ZHOON) [2] [3] is a 246-square-mile (640-square-kilometer) [4] United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its 14 miles (23 kilometers) of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location ...
A tragic example comes from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, the nation's largest U.S. Marine Corps base. At Camp Lejuene the Corps trains marines to deal with risks of combat but neglected to respond to reports of contaminated groundwater that ultimately took the lives of hundreds of people, mostly babies, and impaired the health of many more ...
Service members who were exposed to contaminated water while living at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. are 70 percent more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease compared to military members ...
A U.S. Marine Corps Amphibious Combat Vehicle (right) and an Amphibious Assault Vehicle (left) outside the II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Building at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 2018. The first phase, will consist of several hundred, commercial off-the-shelf wheeled armored vehicles, each costing $3–$4.5 million.