[CPEO-MEF] PFAS, HEALTH: "Families fight for benefits after victims allegedly developed cancer from drinking water tainted by toxic PFAS at [Pease AFB, NH]"

[Lenny Siegel]

US military accused of obstruction over cancer linked to ‘forever chemicals’
Families fight for benefits after victims allegedly developed cancer from drinking water tainted by toxic PFAS at New Hampshire base

By Tom Perkins
Guardian
February 15, 2023

For decades, Ken Brock and Gary Enos largely toiled in the same hangars at New Hampshire’s Pease national air base. The career US national guard members were responsible for giving fuel planes tail-to-nose inspections that prevented crashes.

“We were like general practitioners for planes,” Enos said.

Like hundreds of others who served at Pease, both developed cancer, which they and their families believe was probably from exposure to staggering levels of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” in the base’s drinking water.

Brock died in 2017, and Enos has survived two bouts of cancer. Yet despite the similar career paths and illness, the military paid for Enos’s care and disability benefits – but not for Brock and his surviving wife.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/us-military-toxic-pfas-forever-chemicals

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)