[CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, GLOBAL: "Post 9/11 veterans attribute deadly cancers to contaminants at US base in Uzbekistan"

[Lenny Siegel]

Post 9/11 veterans attribute deadly cancers to contaminants at US base in Uzbekistan

by Patricia Kime
Reveal
February 27, 2020

Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tim Brooks deployed to a remote air base in Uzbekistan called Karshi-Khanabad, a former Soviet and Uzbek military base used to provide logistics support for U.S. operations in Afghanistan.

At least once, he wrote his wife Kim and described an environment where “black gunk” seeped up through the floorboards of his quarters and fine dust settled on all surface areas.

When the officer arrived safely back at Fort Drum, N.Y., life returned to normal, Kim Brooks said. It wasn’t until a post-deployment briefing in which Tim Brooks was told his unit had been exposed to “some really bad stuff” at Karshi-Khanabad, also known as K2, that she began worrying.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/02/27/post-911-veterans-attribute-deadly-cancers-to-contaminants-at-us-base-in-uzbekistan/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel at cpeo.org
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