01/10/2025
Thank you all so much for what you have just accomplished with pushing this bill as well as everything else you folks have done. The Dole family has given so much with a lifetime of leadership and stewardship. I ran my own nonprofit for 17 years helping veterans in areas others were not, including pushing for recognition of biochem and other toxic warfare originating with supporting the Congressional GWI study of 2008.
More recently I have been compiling data showing the use of toxins on military posts along with elements that by themselves or combines with others create serious heath risks. We have been consistent with our presentations and have gained quite a bit of ground toward more study. I am rated ###% disabled including ###% for neurological damage. These environmental disasters also have a significant reach into the water tables. I found a haz mat study for Pope Air Force Base detailing toxic materials and their natural drainage into the Cape Fear River which is one of the worst rivers in our country for PFAS, yet is the source of drinking water for a large section of Southeast North Carolina. I am looking for another report on Ft Bragg - however the government appears not to talk about the elements tested and used on the ranges. Senator Reigle’s report includes testimony about the Special Operations Department at Ft Detrick that demonstrated highly toxic agents to Special Forces at Bragg during Vietnam but rarely kept records for obvious reasons.
Our government, along with other powers having mustard gas and similar toxic agents from WW1 decided to put them in sealed containers that would hold for 50 years and then sink them in surplus ships all around the world to get rid of them. 50 years is long past. One ship was sunk about 100 miles southwest of San Francisco. As it turns out that was a gathering spot for whales which began to wash up on shore not that long ago. The world’s fish population may well have been seriously damaged by these poisons.
Do you have any resources about these matters and are you interested in more research in them?
Respectfully submitted,
Craig Northacker
Founder, VetsHelp.org and Team Patriot.
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