Four families previously posted to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham have filed a federal lawsuit against the United States alleging that the Navy contaminated the base’s water supply with jet fuel and failed to notify base residents. The lawsuit alleges “negligence, trespass, nuisance, and medical malpractice resulting in physical and emotional injuries.”
According to the lawsuit, tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel were released from the Red Hill fuel storage facility located near the base into the ...
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The Office of the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Tort Claims Unit recently said that 
The Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, also known as the PACT Act, seemed like a slam dunk. Amid some of the most polarized and obstructionist politics in our nation’s history, legislators on both sides were poised to pass a comprehensive bill that would funnel hundreds of millions of dollars toward caring for veterans that were exposed to toxic burn pits and other ...
Veterans from a former California military installation have joined a growing number of United States military servicemembers who may have been routinely exposed to a variety of highly toxic chemicals throughout their tenures at their bases. The primary exposure at the Fort Ord installation, like numerous other bases, appears to have come via the drinking water supply.
Water used to be so simple. Just take two hydrogen atoms and smash them together with an oxygen atom and watch as a building block of life takes shape. It requires nothing else to serve as one of the most vital substances on the planet, yet we continue to work to find ways of adding to it to somehow make it “better.”
