I was there from 85 to 91, wonder what I should be looking for..

I am not surprised. I cannot count how many times I was lied to in the Army and cannot even begin to imagine what I wasn't told. This is one of the reasons I got out of the Army. Members of the Armed Forces are not compensated justly for what they do. They often qualify for food stamps, receive poor quality health care, and once they retire or leave the military, the Veteran's Administration is under-staffed and under-funded, all the money from the Pentagon is going to contractors, weapons, and planes. The average service member doesn't make much. Look up the pay scale for the soldiers on the internet. It is a crying shame how poorly the enlisted get paid to lay their lives on the line and then come home and realize their families and sometimes themselves have been poisoned. The government didn't know? Really. I for one feel sorry for all those poisoned while they served their country. I lived in base housing that had lead and asbestos in 2000. The government will never change.

Southerntalent, I was being sarcastic because I made a comment and they did not post it. I Googled and found the answer. I just figured that since this was a media outlet, they would tell us that. My bad. (Being sarcastic again) I thought that WRAL was the best when it comes to reporting.

If you search,I believe they said chemical tanks were leaking into the groundwater

The toxic substances they found are PCE and TCE,both are solvent's and are used in dry cleaning and as a degreaser.They also found BTEX (Benzene,Toluene,Ethylbenzene,Zylene)- BTEX is found in petroleum products.You can imagine in the 50s,60s and 70s no one was paying any attention to what was going into the groundwater either intentionally or unintentionally.

Makes you wonder about activities like WikiLeaks and the potential value of such activities. Perhaps thousands of people would not have been poisoned if unscrupulous government officials had been exposed decades before they started warning people about hazards they were aware of - "not on my watch", don't want to jeopardize my military career...

I want to see anybody on Earth give them the lives back...with their "compensation" tell what price tag did you put on your father?

Perhaps I should ask this another way. What contaminated the water?

If you search,I believe they said chemical tanks were leaking into the groundwater

Tainted with what? HEllo?

if this is true, then i'm eligible for money money mone-yyyyyy

Perhaps I should ask this another way. What contaminated the water?

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