Do you know someone that was stationed at Lejeune during those times? Or was a spouse/child that lived on base housing. Must have been there for at least 30 days.
Ask if they have received their info packet from the Va and HQMC on the water. They also need to go to the Marine Corps website and register for updates and to get their name put in the database.
Bottom line, we drank contaminated water, our food was prepared with contaminated water and we bathed in contaminated water. We have a higher chance of contracting some really bad things. The VA has been directed to pay for the treatment of some of those things for veterans but dependents are not covered yet.
Camp Lejeune Marines from that time have a higher rate of cancer of the cervix, Kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, prostate, rectum and soft tissue. Hodgkin Lymphoma, Leukemia, Multiple melanomas and Multiple Sclerosis.
Semper Fi
http://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/res...n_rev12_13.pdf
Ask if they have received their info packet from the Va and HQMC on the water. They also need to go to the Marine Corps website and register for updates and to get their name put in the database.
Bottom line, we drank contaminated water, our food was prepared with contaminated water and we bathed in contaminated water. We have a higher chance of contracting some really bad things. The VA has been directed to pay for the treatment of some of those things for veterans but dependents are not covered yet.
Camp Lejeune Marines from that time have a higher rate of cancer of the cervix, Kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, prostate, rectum and soft tissue. Hodgkin Lymphoma, Leukemia, Multiple melanomas and Multiple Sclerosis.
Semper Fi
http://www.va.gov/healthbenefits/res...n_rev12_13.pdf
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