The cancer diagnoses of 61 US soldiers who all had served at the same former Soviet Base in Afghanistan have been linked the a toxic waste pond near the base.
The pond was so obviously toxic that is reportedly glowed bright green and black goo oozed from the ground, and, reportedly the defense department knew about it the entire time.
As The Daily Mail reports:
Special forces operators who arrived at a base in Uzbekistan immediately after 9/11 found glowing green ponds and black goo oozing from the ground, and the toxic site has been linked to dozens of cases of cancer in veterans, documents reveal.
Karshi-Khanabad, known as K2, was a former Soviet air base just a few hundred miles from the Afghanistan border, and became a key hub in the early fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in 2001.
But Department of Defense officials knew that K2 was likely toxic and contaminated even before the first troops arrived, according to a tranche of documents reported by McClatchy on Thursday.
At least 61 of the men and women who served at K2 were diagnosed with cancer or died from the disease, according to a 2015 Army study on the base.
Is there a parallel to John Wayne reportedly getting cancer, and then dying at about 70, from observing US nuclear test explosions?
If our alleged leaders had their way we would have such hazards through America
NASA Ames Research Center in the Heart of Silicon Valley (Moffett Field Air Base) is contaminated with several toxic chemicals. TCEs are in the underground water from semiconductors which are made from silicon, an essential component of most electronic circuits by mainly companies Fairchild and Raytheon across the road from the inactive air base. Also the Navy dumped jet fuel at the base. Many people have cancer, auto immune disease, Parkinsons and more working for NASA as TCEs invade buildings in the air coming up from the toxic water below buildings. It is known, hidden and minimally mitigated for safety.
I was attached to 7th CSG in Albania, 1998. There was a pond that didn’t evaporate and glowed green. The base FOB was in a swamp and there was black goo everywhere. Has anybody done a study on this ?
Unbelievable, this won’t be as widespread as Agent Orange but none the less acceptable. Too many bases in both foreign countries and here in the U.S. have contaminated areas. There is no reason, even during wartime, to put soldiers at risk when known contaminants are present. This is outrageous and I hope the government steps up to help those families involved in this tragedy.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to do the right thing.
Well the brass does it again and again, from agent orange, depleted uranium, now toxic radiation ponds. Is it to much to protect our troops from environmental hazards much less facing death every day, so now the come home and face death from the government brass.