In the vast universe of hazardous exposure
diseases, science has divided medical
patients into 2 distinct groups: high-dose
victims and low-dose victims.

High-dose victims usually represent
the worst case scenario in the spectrum
of diseases such as horrific cancers or
iminent death while low-dose victims
present with lesser diseases of the same
variations which are either crippling
and untreatable or requires lifelong
medical care to manage.

It is a common bungle, game, or screwup,
for unqualified attorneys, doctors,
or even VA types to try and confuse
and obliterate a case by suggesting
or imposing the idea that all cases
are high-dose cases and then have
to comply with or answer to the highest
possible test scenarios which would
otherwise only be used in the high-dose
case population. It is important
for effected Veterans to keep their
heads screwed on and to stay focused
on whether or not practitioners are
making the careful distinctions
between these 2 dosing populations
when you are advancing an exposure
theory.

The VA is notorious for forcing
low-dose cases to measure up to
high-dose proofing standards. Don't
let them go there and this is where
you have to set up boundaries to
wage your wars in claims.

Those women Veterans who were assigned
to the WAC Training Batallion and
quartered in Bldg. #2220 for Alpha
Company, Bravo Company, Charlie
Company, and Delta Company up to
1978, and then all men and women
who were quartered thereafter up
into the 1990's can begin invoking
asbestos exposure related claims
from that building.

This is not the only new finding
I have made on the heels of my
recent trip to Fort McClellan
on October 9th. But if you are
that confident that this may be
the very missing piece of your
life puzzle that you have been
looking for, then I bring to you
now the LINK for asbestos related
diseases at the Center for Disease
Control.

At the top part of the spectrum
of diseases for asbestos exposure
for high-dosing cases, there lies
mesothelioma cancer, lung cancer,
gastrointestinal cancer, and colo-rectal
cancer. At the lower end of the
spectrum for low-dosing cases,
you would find the same variations
of diseases in lesser form and not
yet reaching the cancer stage.
This would be respiratory diseases,
gastrintestinal and colo-rectal
diseases not yet arrive to cancer
stage.

I have used CDC as our posting source
but there are other internet sources
on-line to look it if you search
using Google.com. www.WebMD.com is
one place and even the World Health
Organization is also on the internet.

We are lifting the original 1978
closing date that was set up for
our Fort McClellan legislation draft
on Capitol Hill and we are opening
up the revised bill for "multiple
sourced exposures" to cover the
Veterans from the Fort McClellan
area. There will be more on that
in a separate release later on.

The asbestos debacle was not the only
new finding that I came back with
from my recent trip to Fort McClellan
so some may want to hold off until
I get the rest of this posted.

The Army, the state of Alabama, and
the EPA and CDC respectively, have
severely bungled and sabotaged the
entire contamination zone scenario
in the town of Anniston. The trip I
made was an eye-opening experience
and I can say with certainty right
now, we do know all of the points
of failure in this and how to repackage
the legislative effort for the next
session in January under the new
administration and majority. A big
part of this has to do with bungling
idiots and slackers and the rest
of it has to do with failures and
gaps in existing state and federal
environmental laws. What's important
now to know is that the whole thing
is well defined and once a problem
is defined, it is ready for legislation.

In the BRAC report that you have just
seen posted below this Forum, the
failure was while they named the
Womens Army Corps as having existed
on the base, there was no effort
at all to find out which building
numbers they had been quartered in.
Only the men were named in match up
(circa. 1995) to the building numbers.

It wasn't until I got there with
my camera that I understood what
had happened. It's very hard to do
a project like this from a long
distance with no counterparts on
the ground, and using only paper
maps which are deceiving in distance
and space. So a lot came out of
this trip once I was able to re-channel
all the new information into one
place and put together a whole
new story of what has happened
down there.

With that said, here is the LINK
page to the Center for Disease Control
on asbestos related diseases. More
to come later on about the other
new findings that have been made.

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/Asbestos/asbestos/health_effects/index.html

What is rather stunning about this CDC
Link is the very open discussion about
"delayed onset" of diseases. Yet when
Veterans invoke the "delayed onset"
theory or nexus in VA disability claims,
the VA Raters sit around looking all
stupid in the face and cannot seem
to grasp the fundamental concept of
delayed onset. But here in another
part of the government, the delayed
onset concept is as plain as day for
anybody who reads.

I rest my case.

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