While much attention has been
given to my other Blogs on
this page to the Fort McClellan
chemical contamination zone
in Anniston, Alabama, there
is a second base drama playing
out simultaneously with equal
anguish and despair to the
Marines who were stationed
there and that is the chemical
contamination zone at Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina.

Part of the reason this hasn't
been addressed up until now
is we don't receive very
much free press on the subject
and almost nothing is floating
on it in the Veterans Circuit.

The story is a simple one.
Some drinking water wells on
the base was found to be
extremely contamintated
with a chemical called
trichloroethylene which is
used in degreasing machinery.
It was discovered in 1980,
but the wells were not closed
until 1985. Since there is
little discussion about what
is known about the contamination
causation or the start date
of it, the Center For Disease
Control has done a review all
the way back to 1968.

The 2 contamination zones after
that have little in common
since the Camp Lejeune matter
was a spill on the base itself,
whereas at Fort McClellan,
the larger part of the
contamination had an airborne
causation from broken air
stacks at Monsanto Chemical
Corps. The layering of that
pollution with the nearby
(CN) gashouse training at
the mostly womens base at
McClellan forms a different
truckload of arguments and
process than Lejeune when
trying to force justice up the
nose of the system.

Marines for the most part,
have been notified about their
contaminated military service,
and have been somewhat
investigated and processed
by the office of ATSDR which
is the Agency For Toxic
Substances and a part of the
Center For Disease Control.

Fort McClellan veterans,
however, have not even had
the basics of official
notification let alone a
proper service package of
assistance from the agencies.

Camp Lejeune IS receiving
some investigation assistance
from the Senate Environment
and Public Works Committee
which is itself a mystery
as to how the whole thing
could be escaping the House
Veterans Affairs Committee.

I have personally sought
to remedy that by scanning
and emailing an entire
article on Camp Lejeune
which recently appeared in
the Washington Post, to
the Staffers of the House
Committee. In a short reply
they have said that a field
trip to Lejeune is coming
up soon, and they would do
a comparison probe to the
handling of the Fort McClellan
matter while they were
reviewing Lejeune.

Which brings me to the
point, that there is absolutely
NO existing emergency
response to be found anywhere
in any government agency
whatsoever when it comes
to a hazardous chemical
contamination zone newly
discovered on or near
a military base which has
no connection to a combat
zone. How can this possibly
be?

An entire multi-health agency
universe exists inside the
federal government, and not
ONE of them is commissioned
to provide emergency response
to post-service Veterans upon
discovering a contamination
zone. It boggles the mind,
doesn't it???

The lazy incompetence of DAV
and other VSO's, in combination
with the lack of organized
"outcry" from the exposure
victims themselves and the
general lack of assistance
and response from our own
other-Veterans, has now given
birth to the new illness
class of military exposure
disability victim.

There is nothing funny about this.

The Marines potentially effected
at Camp Lejeune numbers
between 50,000 and 200,000
and at Fort McClellan, can
go to nearly 7 million.

The prime illness hazard at
Camp Lejeune is birth defects
in children, immunity disorders,
and kidney and liver damage.

The illnesses we have recorded
from the Fort McClellan exposure
group includes: birth defects,
premature ob-gyn problems such
as eary hysterectomies, asthma
and upper respiratory, skin
conditions requiring surgery,
degenerative disks in the back,
migrain headaches, recurring
and unexplained gastrointestinal
disease, chronic fatigue, liver
and thyroid disease, and muscular
diseases including the crippling
strain of Fibromyalgia Syndrome,
which is common to Gulf War Illness.

I appeared before the VA
Disability Commission which
is a 12-member panel of
retired military types, one
or two of which are Medal
Of Honor recipients back
in August of last year
with my Fort McClellan story
as I stood there wearing my
WalMart clothes and crutch.
After all this time has
passed in dropping that MayDay
emergency news on these
boneheads, to this very
minute, Dopey, Grumpy, and
Sneezy has yet to respond
to our emergency lifesaving
issue. Go figure!

The same is true with Bill
McLemore, a Vet and former
Veterans claims rep. himself
who is now the Deputy
Secretary of the VA, who
I appeared before as he
sat on a review panel that
I spoke at on December 6 a
couple of months ago.
S-N-O-R-E !!

The problem here you see
is that the VA and all of
it's "tentacle" commissions,
boards, congressional committees,
and everything else, has no
intellectual comprehension
to morally absorb the urgency
or emergency of a MayDay
issue when it is brought to
them in a proper way. They are
stuck-on-stupid like a broken
record, and telling them
about a MayDay issue does
little than to extract
yet another undeserving
yawn, stretch, walk to
the coffee machine, and more
of do nothing as 3 full minutes
of dead air just before the
crickets start to chirp
begins to take over the
room!!! tick....tick....tick

The fact that these useless
assholes have ever held a
legitimate rank for even
3 full days in military service
themselves, totally escapes
your vision of who they might
really be. Imposters maybe???
Who knows. What's wrong with
this picture? LOL!

You have to ask yourselves
just how many times does
it take for a woman or man
Veteran to stand in front
of them and use the word
MayDay before they finally
kick into Code Red high alert!

The chemical exposure victims
of Camp Lejeune and Fort
McClellan apparently have all
eternity to WAIT while Assholes
Incorporated stay entrenched in
their coma's.

I like to call this
Abu-Graib-Syndrome because
they all walk around with
their heads in their asses
while relentless human torture
and neglect comes spewing
out of their offices in
Washington and it never
occurs to anyone to pick
up a telephone and DO SOMETHING
to stop the torture, or at
least not until you walk in
the room with a camera in
your hand. Sometimes not even
a Kodak moment can get their
attention, such as this matter.

Yes, we all went to wars
and put our asses on the
line only to protect and
uphold their right to be
forever asleep at the wheel!
O-o-o-r-r-a-a-a-h-h !!
America the beautiful and
useless.

We Veterans simply have to
come together and decide how
we are going to deal with
other Veteran assholes of the
future, because all of the
incompetence and bungling
is coming from more of them
now, and we cannot allow
them to create a "human shield"
of sorts for the VA and all
of it's 3-ring circus.

And we will have to organize
between ourselves and make
a pledge that chemical exposure
victims on bases not tied
to a combat zone, are also
legitimate disability cases TOO!
We will have to sort out in
advance the distinction
between right and wrong and
go with that, because the
bureacrats are remarkably
without that ability, apparently,
and we will have to find the
inner strength to run over
them if they get in our way
as we pursue these all important
MayDay distinctions.

The day of the Parrot-Head
Veteran and his broken
record of "I love my country"
will have to go by the wayside
as the rest of us take on
the major Heave-Ho of
kicking other VA-Vet asses
and collecting proverbial names.

What the VA and all of it's
tentacles is lacking is
the moral value of preserving
human life -- incredibly as they
go around with their false
storefronts of pretending
to rescue us from certain
death. We are dealing with
a new VA --- the morally
depraved. With their I.Q.'s
so stunningly low, MayDay
and emergency response completely
escapes their dictionary.

The Camp Lejeune and Fort
McClellan MayDay matters and the
utter lack of emergency response
by the agencies are proof of that.
So the crisis remains on OUR
backs alone to give them a
wakeup call to remember. In the
meantime, many more will die
from misdiagnosis or ignored
serious symptoms as the VA
Snore Drama continues.

Unfortunately Camp Lejeune and Fort McClellan are only a small part to the total Nazi style poisoning of the vets by our incompetent Government. The only thing they fear the most is the treat of violence. Whenever a vet gets to the point of utter frustration instead of going to their solitary room and blowing their brains out. The only thing that that show is that one solitary vets killed himself and that can be easily cover up and forgotten about. It is time for the vets to get serious about dealing with this issue. First, thing is we stop marching in their parades and secondly, which is a little more drastic is when a vet is to the point of suicide, don't do it alone. This apparently, is the only thing that this cowards seem to understand besides the money. As we all can see military service, as exciting as it was back then has turned out to be a horrible nightmare to many. So why not pass the nightmare on to those who fight us so vehemently. They understand violence better than what the vets have been doing so far. Personally, where I come from, when someone hits me I hit them back. We as vets have been slapped many times and we literally have not done anything but play by their rules. We have lost the tactical advantage because they are making us fight this fight on their terms. It is time for us to take back the highground and fight this battle on our terms.

If they have a parade, we don't show up. Vets need to show some spine and stop whinning on these blogs and sites because all we are doing is preaching to the choir and no one else is listening.