Military Servicemembers and Their Families Were Exposed to Toxic Chemicals From 1980-2001
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The Navy knew about the hazards as early as March of 1989 after results of the first air sampling study concluded, "When the plume comes over the base, keep all personnel indoors and send as many people off base as possible. Keep all pregnant woman off of the base."However, the Navy did not start mandatory health risk communication briefings for current and future base personal until May of 1998. The Navy has still never officially notified anyone of their exposure that lived, worked, went to school, or spent time at NAF Atsugi from 1980-1998.
The VA was not informed of the exposure by the DoD until ~2009, eight years after the incinerator complex ceased operations. The VA acknowledges and maintains a website on the Atsugi Incinerator exposure but states that "Currently there is no definitive scientific evidence to show that living at NAF Atsugi while the incinerator operated caused additional risk for disease."
Some Of The Diseases & Side-Effects That Our Members Are Experiencing:
The VA was not informed of the exposure by the DoD until ~2009, eight years after the incinerator complex ceased operations. The VA acknowledges and maintains a website on the Atsugi Incinerator exposure but states that "Currently there is no definitive scientific evidence to show that living at NAF Atsugi while the incinerator operated caused additional risk for disease."
Some Of The Diseases & Side-Effects That Our Members Are Experiencing:
Cancers; AML Leukemia, Basal Cell Carcinoma, Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, Bone Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Pancreatic Cancer, Renal Call Carcinoma, Rectal Cancer, T-Cell and Thyroid Cancer.
Non-Carcinogenic Side-effects; Adult Asthma, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), Autism, Auto-immune Conjunctivitis, Bipolar, Bipolar Disorder, Cardiac Rhythm Irregularities, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Sinusitis, Constrictive Bronchiolitis, Crohns Disease, Degenerative Disks Disease, Dementia, Depression, Diabetes (Type II), Down's Syndrome, Dubin Johnson's, Eczema, Fibromyalgia, Hair Loss, Insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Kallman's Syndrome, Kidney Toxicity, Liver Damage, A Loss of Lung Capacity, Lupus, Memory Loss. Migraines, Minimal Change Nephrotic Syndrome, Multiple Miscarriages, Neurological Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Olfactory Loss, Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Organic Brain Syndrome, Paranoid Schizophrenia, Parkinson Disease, Peripheral Neuropathy, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), Raynaud's Phenomenon, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sciatic Nerve Damaged, Scoliosis, Seizures, Sinus Tumors, Skin Lesions and Other Skin Disorders, Spindle Cell Fibrous Histiocytoma, Supraventricular Tachycardia, Thyroductal Cysts, Tinea Capitis. |
According To Environmental Reports NAF Atsugi Was Exposed To Over 200 Different Chemicals In The Air & Water
Here is a list of the chemicals that exceeded the environmental standards by as much as 70-90 times the legal limit...
Acetaldehyde, Arsenic, Benzene, Beryllium, Carbon Tetrachloride, Cadmium, Chloroform, Chromium, Dioxin, Formaldehyde, Hydrochloric Acid, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Nitrogen Dioxide, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Respirable Particulates (PM 10), Sulfur Dioxide, Tetrachloroethene (PCE), Trichloroethene (TCE), Vinyl Choride, cis-1,3 Dichloropropene, trans 1,2 Dichloropropene, 2,3,7,8, TCDD, 1,2 Dichlorethane, 1,2 Dichloropropane, 1,4 Dichlorobenzene, and many more.
Here is a list of the chemicals that exceeded the environmental standards by as much as 70-90 times the legal limit...
Acetaldehyde, Arsenic, Benzene, Beryllium, Carbon Tetrachloride, Cadmium, Chloroform, Chromium, Dioxin, Formaldehyde, Hydrochloric Acid, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Nitrogen Dioxide, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Respirable Particulates (PM 10), Sulfur Dioxide, Tetrachloroethene (PCE), Trichloroethene (TCE), Vinyl Choride, cis-1,3 Dichloropropene, trans 1,2 Dichloropropene, 2,3,7,8, TCDD, 1,2 Dichlorethane, 1,2 Dichloropropane, 1,4 Dichlorobenzene, and many more.
Official Quotes From Top Government Officials....
Ambassador Thomas S. Foley: (Washington Post December 20, 1999)
"But my first obligation is to the health of our people. If we cannot eliminate the threat to our people, then we will have no choice but to move our people away from the threat."
Capt. F.E. Crecelius, Chief of Staff of U.S. Naval Forces Japan: (Washington Post December 20, 1999)
"The Navy, facing its responsibility and liability for future health problems, wants to go to court and seek an injunction to shut it down."
Lt. Cmdr. James Graybeal, Command Naval Forces Japan Spokesman: (Stars and Stripes October 23, 1999)
"Preliminary data reflects what U.S. officials have been saying all along: The Enviro-Tech incinerator poses a grave health risk to Atsugi sailors and their families."
Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig: (NAF Atsugi Public Affairs Article April 04, 2000)
"You can see the trees are dying. We know that the effects on our people are similarly as bad. Once this problem (Shinkampo) is dealt with, we can focus on our main mission to defend Japan."
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen: (Navy News Service March 23, 2000)
Cohen said March 16 after touring the base. The pollution poses "a significant health risk," he said. "We do not expect our men and women who are serving in the military and those who are supporting them to have to incur this kind of exposure."
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen: (American Forces Press Service March 2000)
"It is clear that the status quo cannot be maintained," Cohen said March 16 after touring the base. The pollution poses "a significant health risk,” he said."We do not expect our men and women who are serving in the military and those who are supporting them to have to incur this kind of exposure, I am confident we will have action taken. We cannot have the kind of health hazard that our people are exposed to."
Captain James W. Graybeal U.S. Navy Chief of Public Affairs, United States Strategic Command: (1999)
“A health risk assessment by the navy found that a three-year stint on the base was the equivalent of smoking cigarettes for more than 70 years.” (1999)
U.S. President Bill Clinton: (American Embassy Tokyo February 8, 2000)
"In a Japan-U.S. summit meeting held in Washington in May last year, President Clinton said to Prime Minister Obuchi, "There is the problem of Shinkampo." One senior official at the Foreign Ministry said, "I never thought the President himself would come out to call for improvements in the situation even by referring to the name of a company. It reminded us of how deeply the U.S. side was irritated."
Navy's Top Commander In Japan Rear Admiral Michael Haskins: (New York Times April 27, 1997)
"People who reside or work at... Atsugi are breathing the poorest and the worst dioxin-polluted air in Japan" and "suffer damage to their health every day."
Other NAF Atsugi Facts...
Ambassador Thomas S. Foley: (Washington Post December 20, 1999)
"But my first obligation is to the health of our people. If we cannot eliminate the threat to our people, then we will have no choice but to move our people away from the threat."
Capt. F.E. Crecelius, Chief of Staff of U.S. Naval Forces Japan: (Washington Post December 20, 1999)
"The Navy, facing its responsibility and liability for future health problems, wants to go to court and seek an injunction to shut it down."
Lt. Cmdr. James Graybeal, Command Naval Forces Japan Spokesman: (Stars and Stripes October 23, 1999)
"Preliminary data reflects what U.S. officials have been saying all along: The Enviro-Tech incinerator poses a grave health risk to Atsugi sailors and their families."
Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig: (NAF Atsugi Public Affairs Article April 04, 2000)
"You can see the trees are dying. We know that the effects on our people are similarly as bad. Once this problem (Shinkampo) is dealt with, we can focus on our main mission to defend Japan."
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen: (Navy News Service March 23, 2000)
Cohen said March 16 after touring the base. The pollution poses "a significant health risk," he said. "We do not expect our men and women who are serving in the military and those who are supporting them to have to incur this kind of exposure."
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen: (American Forces Press Service March 2000)
"It is clear that the status quo cannot be maintained," Cohen said March 16 after touring the base. The pollution poses "a significant health risk,” he said."We do not expect our men and women who are serving in the military and those who are supporting them to have to incur this kind of exposure, I am confident we will have action taken. We cannot have the kind of health hazard that our people are exposed to."
Captain James W. Graybeal U.S. Navy Chief of Public Affairs, United States Strategic Command: (1999)
“A health risk assessment by the navy found that a three-year stint on the base was the equivalent of smoking cigarettes for more than 70 years.” (1999)
U.S. President Bill Clinton: (American Embassy Tokyo February 8, 2000)
"In a Japan-U.S. summit meeting held in Washington in May last year, President Clinton said to Prime Minister Obuchi, "There is the problem of Shinkampo." One senior official at the Foreign Ministry said, "I never thought the President himself would come out to call for improvements in the situation even by referring to the name of a company. It reminded us of how deeply the U.S. side was irritated."
Navy's Top Commander In Japan Rear Admiral Michael Haskins: (New York Times April 27, 1997)
"People who reside or work at... Atsugi are breathing the poorest and the worst dioxin-polluted air in Japan" and "suffer damage to their health every day."
Other NAF Atsugi Facts...
Here are two important documents to add to your service connected claims that were provided to our members by the Department of the Navy in 1997 (Standard Form 600) and in 1998 (The Atsugi Waiver).
1997:
Atsugi military members and families were not warned about the dangers of Dioxin (the main ingredient in Agent Orange that killed the vegetation in Vietnam) until 1997 when the Department of the Navy required a Standard Form 600 to added to our medical files (12 years too late for many of out members). This form included 12 Chemicals that exceeded the EPA’s “Maximum Contamination Level” standards, and the majority of these chemicals are on the Top 25 List of the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR) Priority List of Toxic Chemicals.
STANDARD FORM 600
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1998:
In 1998 the DoN declared that NAF Atsugi was a, “hazardous and high risk duty station).” This meant that every base resident (civilian or military) over the age of 18 had to sign a waiver, and those who were under 18 needed a parent to sign one for them.
Unfortunately this waiver did not disclose....
1. The cancer risks we were facing
2. Nor the possible long-term health risks for living at NAF Atsugi
***NAF Atsugi was the only military base in the world that required its members to sign a waiver***
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All Of Our Members That Have Been Affected By Toxic Chemical Exposure On Naval Air Facility Atsugi Need…
a) Proper healthcare whether it is VA healthcare & benefits for our veterans, or Tricare medical for our civilian members.
b) VA Compensation and Pension benefits for the primary & secondary conditions that many of our members are being denied.
c) Access to toxicologists who are the only healthcare professionals that are qualified to diagnose patients who have been
exposed to toxic chemicals.
d) Atsugi health registry that will include both military and family members who were knowingly exposed to toxins from 1985-2001.
We need a NAF Atsugi registry not just so that there can be a true scope about how huge this problem really is, but so that history will eventually stop repeating itself decade after decade.
a) Proper healthcare whether it is VA healthcare & benefits for our veterans, or Tricare medical for our civilian members.
b) VA Compensation and Pension benefits for the primary & secondary conditions that many of our members are being denied.
c) Access to toxicologists who are the only healthcare professionals that are qualified to diagnose patients who have been
exposed to toxic chemicals.
d) Atsugi health registry that will include both military and family members who were knowingly exposed to toxins from 1985-2001.
We need a NAF Atsugi registry not just so that there can be a true scope about how huge this problem really is, but so that history will eventually stop repeating itself decade after decade.