As I have said a few times in this
Forum page now, anybody could have found
out what I had found out by going in
person directly to the Anniston area
recently and digging up information
from different various sources.

The Army, it seems, has been yanking
everybody's leg for a very long time
regarding the Anniston contamination
zone throughout the region. There
is no shock here because it is widely
known that the VA and DOD both work
in conspiracy with each other to murder
and torture innocent Veterans who are
making true and legitimate health
claims.

I suppose what makes this story so
ugly, shocking, and even gripping at
times is that the Army has the gall
to do this to a bunch of innocent elderly
ladies who used to be the WACS who
are stationed there. [ this would be a
good time to see the rememberance photos
I have posted in the Forum category
below this one to make that point ].

What this shows is that men, in all
the Testosterone Squads they are running
at the VA and DOD, in the end have no
moral commitment, no sense of duty
or "right thing" spirit, and no sense
of rescue even when it's late in the
game of closure, to come forward and
take responsibility for injustices
gone on by, or even in the 11th hour,
be a man and stand tall as the hero
in a game of death that does not need
to exist if only somebody would
act (and do it soon) to make life
a little better for Veterans who
not only served honorably at Fort
McClellan, Ala. but also had no
hand whatsoever in the accumulation
of contaminations which occurred
there.

The Army, you see, has other morally
depraved ideas for the Fort McClellan
Veterans, and has no plans at all
to own up to their ugly part in what
has happened in the overall Anniston
region.

On that note, I bring to you 2 different
direct LINKS into the Environmental
Protection Agency's very own SuperFund
cleanup database (called CERCLA) which
has outted the Army at Fort McClellan
to be an all out, lying and useless
piece of CRAP and has gone on to expose
the fact that the Anniston Army
Depot , which sits just down
the road of Highway 202 and at the
opposite end from where Monsanto
sits, yes the Depot itself single
handedly proceded to contaminate
the entire public drinking water supply
of the entire region and area of
Anniston, Alabama.

The most prominent contaminate found
in CDC testing was TCE, believe it or
not (yes that is the same contaminate
found at the Camp Lejeune contamination
on base) but other traces of metals
and alloys were also found in the
water.

This means, of course, that every
drive in movie theater in the area
was serving up soda mixed with the
contaminated water; every rental
housing area that was occupied by
off-base troops back in the day
throughout the region; and every
restaurant and relaxation place that
the troops went out on leave and
pass for in the downtown business
district, was exposed to and consummed
the local contaminated drinking
water.

We do not have an exacting start
date for the contamination from
Anniston Army Depot, and the Center
for Disease Control has only named
it in approximations to be the
1950's, the 1960's, the 1970's,
and the 1980's. We do have a more
exacting END date for the contamination
and that is 1988. It basically took
them 4 years of halt orders and cleanup
to get the drinking water under
EPA guidelines again.

I can tell you for sure, as one
of those former troops, at no time
were we as military personnel ever
advised of this contamination
matter coming from Anniston Army
Depot.

The EPA's CERCLA database doesn't
lie. It is compelling and it is
there for all the world to see.
The Army could have pulled it's
head out of it's proverbial ass
virtually any day of the week and
found it there if only they had
looked.

Capitol Hill now knows about this
little GEM of a military secret,
and it will be interesting to see
what they all do next with this
newly found information.

Now let me see, let's run this back
in slow motion:

The women Veterans at Fort McClellan
were all stationed in Army barracks
which had a verified medium level
of toxicity for asbestos. Then
they trained in field maneuvers
where the air was known to be
contaminated. Then they rented off
base in military rental housing
or otherwise took Leave or weekend
passes into the downtown district
so they could then consume contaminated
drinking water by Anniston Army Depot.

[b]Are ya starting to see where this
is all going ??{/b]

The truth is, the Army is emerging
as the biggest bunch of scumbags known
to mankind who then want to parade
themselves around as the Icons
and keyholders of "honor". Give me
a freaking BREAK! I say and get a load
of what the official record is at
the EPA CERCLA database and let's just
stand back and see who it is, exactly,
who are the REAL Icons of "honor".

I think after you read these 2 separate
EPA database reports at the LINKS
below, it will impress upon you the
legitimacy of the legislative odessy
and ordeal we have all been put through,
first 2 years at the Veterans Benefits
Disability Commission, and now in our
second year of rat-chasing all of
Capitol Hill as tortured medical
patients, to get our national health
registery and presumptive service
connected statusing.

If these 2 EPA report LINKS don't
really pull at your heart and show
just what a bunch of incompetent
shitbags the Army really has become,
then honestly I just don't know
what will.

It should be noted that in the revised
draft of the Fort McClellan Veterans
legislation, I have included the
former Army personnel who were also
stationed at the Anniston Army Depot.
That takes some doing on my end,
but I say to you here, they were all
under command orders and not one
of us had any power on our own to
stand up and question anybody about
military procedure in how things
got done. If you were told to dump
into a creek, then that got done
without a blink of the eye.

Ya see, we know how to put things
into context and only focus
on the concerns of health for
those who may have been exposed
or implicated in contamination
areas. The Army does NOT.

The Army and the VA has no value
of human life whatsoever, they just
have a Testosterone Club that says
cover yer ass every step of the
way and let anybody die who can
so their dirty little secret
never sees the light of day. Even
if it's the death of little old
ladies who served in the Womens
Army Corps.

These EPA report LINKS are compelling,
it will take your breath away when
you read all of it. It will boggle
your minds that anybody could officially
know such information and then turn
around and sit on their lazy asses
and do absolutely nothing at all
for the Veterans of Fort McClellan,
Alabama. This is a stunning disregard
for human life, and I think you will
agree with me once you see these
2 separate summary descriptions of
the contaminatoin zone as the EPA
came by it themselves and began
the Halt orders as the magnitude
of their discovery started taking
shape on paper.

This was a contamination zone in
the public drinking water that effected
some 58,000 local residents (homeowners
and military renters throughout the region)
and yet another 5,000 private drinking
wells for those in the suburbs who were
not using the public drinking water
supply but had their own wells on
their land. Does this sound like
small potatos to YOU ??

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1690.htm

http://www.epa.gov/Region4/waste/npl/nplal/annardal.htm


Contact the House Veterans Affairs Committee
at www.house.gov and let them know that
you support, demand, and insist on the
passage of the Fort McClellan Veterans
Equity Act this up and coming legislative
session for the national health registery
and presumptive service connected statusing
for those disabled Veterans who served
at Fort McClellan, Alabama.

REPLY:

Well, TCE is a completely whole other
different subject now and has no
connection to Agent Orange. So again
I am lost as to what you are after here.

I am the original author of the Fort
McClellan legislation so trust me,
AO and TCE are NOT connected.

thanks

Got it. Thanks. Just thought maybe you might have heard something about it since you seemed well informed about the TCE issue.

REPLY:

When you start right off talking with disinformation as if it's true when it isn't,
there are people who misread and get confused
about what the truth is.

There is nobody in this Forum who is talking
about AO at Fort McClellan and it has never
especially come from ME at any time in
my legislative update posts. So if you look
again at what you said, you are now stuck
there for somebody else to pick up and
believe you are telling them that there
is AO legislation regarding Fort McClellan,
which there isn't, but it will tie up my
time now answering to the future searches
who pick that up by mistake. KaPeesh ??
Thanks for understanding.

I was not "lumping them together" as you stated in your reply. As I stated in my post, I am new to this forum and I wrote that post because I am trying to educate myself on AO and Ft McClellan. I asked you because after reading your various posts, you seem to be very knowledgeable on the subject.

I am not one of the "little old ladies" you referred to in your post. I am a very young 50 years old. I have a lot of living left to do. Not all WACS are old women. Remember, we were not phased out until 77 or 78.

At any rate, I will refrain from posting here in the future. You have responded to two of my posts, both of which were requests for information. In both instances your intro paragraph has been very abrupt bordering on very rude. I'm not naive. I've been battling the VA for 15 years for benefits. I assist other Vets when they come to me. I talk to Vets all the time about benefits they are entitled to and I push them into applying. I'm not one of those Vets who is only out to get what I've got coming to me and then I turn my back on my brothers and sisters.

There is very little activity on this forum and now I understand why.

Wendi

REPLY:

We have no legislation whatsoever pending
before Congress regarding AO and Fort McClellan
so I don't have a clue as to why you are
lumping both of those together.

No there is nothing your doctors can test you
for because the PPM blood samplings are
only applicable to residents who live in the
hot zone. PPM's drop off in the blood after
25 years of not being near the contaminating
source.

That is what the national Health Registery
will be for --- to match us up statistically
to the medical profiles of the civilians
who are living there.

You have to wait for the legislation to be
announced and for now, that will be in the
next legislative session starting in
January 2010.

I have not yet written my trip update
report as there is a lot in it and I
haven't had the computer time I need
to type it all out. Just be patient,
it is coming.

I'm new to this forum. Just found it while googling Ft McClellan and AO exposure. I was at Ft McClellan for basic training in Oct-Nov 1976. A friend mentioned to me some months ago that I was probably exposed to AO while I was there. Until now I haven't really given it much thought or done much research on it.

Over the last year or so I've had more than my share of health problems and the doctors can't seem to find the cause of them. I'm wondering if it's possible they can be tracked back to my time at Ft McClellan. Is there anything specific I can tell my primary care physician to test for?

Just as a quick example, I've lost almost 60 pounds since March and no one knows why. They haven't found any cancer. No diseases. The docs thought it was my meds that were killing my appetite so they changed my meds. They thought it was my depression but that's not it either. I can go for days without eating.

Any suggestions would be helpful. I know you aren't doctors here. I understand that. But you've been dealing with AO issues longer than I have. I'm grasping at straws here. I realize that, too. I'm also trying to educate myself on AO and Ft McClellan.

Thanks in advance for any help and information you can provide.

Wendi

REPLY:

Yup --- you know, the Ole Boy's mutual admiration societies out here. They only
want to hear compliments and flattery
for a sinking VA ship while we pedal
the truth like reality TV, if ya catch
my drift.

Testosterone squads?