jan Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Has anyone heard anymore of this topic since February? I know Capt. Agnes B. passed away from her disease she acquired from her time there. I know many soldiers with the Military Police and Chemical School are still waiting along with the WAC's are still waiting for the approval for their ailments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smilen66 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 I am very interested in this post. I was stationed at Ft. McClellan around the time frame of Nov. 1980 through Jan. or Feb. 1981. I find this post interesting because I was diagnosed with an enlarged thyroid gland which was removed in 1983 (while in service). I am not taking any medication since the removal however, this was not a condition that anyone in my family had. I'm now wondering if some of the required exercises/drills while in chemical school later caused a problem with my thyroid gland. Just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadIt.com Elder jbasser Posted November 28, 2009 HadIt.com Elder Share Posted November 28, 2009 Berta what do you mean by the superfund. James Scripp sent me a lot of papers and Ft. McClellan was on the list along with a lot of others including Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Ft Gordon. FYI http://epa.gov/superfund/sites/ J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jan Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 Does this Superfund clean-up mean, yes, we were exposed or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlie Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Also fo Ft. McClellan do some research on Anniston and Monsanto - biggest problem. carlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpowell01 Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 I know this an a year old but I want to bring up Ft McClellan. I went to Chemical School there. During the training we had to go through a Live Nerve Agent Training session where we actually went through a live nerve agent chamber, full MOPP Level 4. At the last station every piece of clothing we had on went into the incinerator. I went through there in 1993. I am researching everything I can find about Ft McClellan and I have found a lot but I cannot find anything that will lead me to the VA allowing us who was at Ft McClellan to be SC'd for certain illnesses or autoimmune diseases. Does anybody have any information on this? Or has it been posted by the VA yet? I know there is the Ft. McClellan Health Register Act that has been brought up but I haven found much on that. Any information will be helpful. Thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berta Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 (edited) There is an online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/pcbstudy/petition.html and I am sure you have found this forum. http://vetsforjusticechat.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/frm/f/5701028811 Here is the bill (HR 6238) (looks to me like vets have to get cracking on obtaining more sponsors for it) and there are references on the net to VA presumptives for Fort McClellan vets- but this is just a rumor. This is similiar to the Project SHAD/112 issue.In this respect: Veterans have to establish a commonality factor of their disabilities,develop a data base of those factors and push for an IOM review or use some already published sources as to how toxins at Ft MC Clellan caused their disabilities- and find an expert who VA would be hard pressed to knock down- to even attempt to get this moving. This can be done but it will take lots of work on the part of veterans affected by toxins at Ft Mc Clellan. If a vet files claim on basis of these toxins and has a strong IMO in support of their claim,from an environmental expert -the vet could potentially succeed but that only helps one vet and legislation would help many other vets in similar types of claims. Edited December 16, 2010 by Berta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Has anyone heard anymore of this topic since February? I know Capt. Agnes B. passed
away from her disease she acquired from her time there. I know many soldiers with the
Military Police and Chemical School are still waiting along with the WAC's are still
waiting for the approval for their ailments.
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