[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VETERANS: "Cancer rate among Air Force missileers prompts questions, concerns"

[Lenny Siegel]

Cancer rate among Air Force missileers prompts questions, concerns
Service members who worked at nuclear weapons facilities seek answers.

By Nathan Luna, Luis Martinez, Matt Seyler, Bobby Gehlen, and Ivan Pereira
ABC News
March 26, 2024

It is a little-known mission within the United States Air Force that operates almost entirely underground, shrouded in secrecy – and is critical to national security.

Those tasked with the job are known as missileers. Their work requires them to be on alert 24/7, and they are responsible for the maintenance, security and operation of the United States’ arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Their mission is one component of the U.S. nuclear "triad," which includes land, air and sea-based nuclear weapons.

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For the entire article, see
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cancer-rate-air-force-missileers-prompts-questions-concerns/story?id=108283672

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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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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)