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VeTALKX: Karshi-Khanabad (K-2) Military Exposures Q&A and 2nd Community Forum
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Why is DOD withholding the results of the most recent epidemiology study conducted in conjunction with the PACT act? Why are the Yale Law Clinic, the Camp Stronghold Freedom foundation and others currently in litigation with DOD with a FOIA request? Why are you sending out letters to affected service members offering to test Uranium isotopes in Urine when you know that there wont be a trace in either the urine or the serum? Why not do a bone aspiration, or spinal tap if you truly care about our health, as the only place that Uranium would still be found in us is in our livers, kidneys and (most concentrated) in our bones. Seems like you are trying to find new ways to deny us benefits for being poisoned by DOD. Also, why is Fort McClellan not even on your radar?
Served at K-2 2003-2004. Retired in 2010. Had colon cancer in 2013. Had surgery and 12 rounds of chemotherapy which left me with multiple medical issues as a result. Absolutely no history of any cancer anywhere in my entire family. Applied twice to VA for disability compensation. Twice turned down. I am told that any GI cancers are now on the listing. Can I apply again and use the PACT act for justification or will the VA stretch this out for decades like the Agent Orange debacle and hope we all pass on before justice is served?
I'm failing to understand how a letter dated May 12th from the VA detailing the above Q&A is just reaching me on June 6th. With your choice of snail mail to list 4 hyperlinks, you've chosen to further misdirect the hundreds of fellow men & women who served at this base. We all have emails and you chose not to email us this information, which would have been the fastest method, and allowed the member to click on the hyperlinks if they were entered correctly. Which your Rallypoint was not, it only brings you to the main page, not to this specific page here. I'm not going to repeat the questions already stated below, but await your replies on June 29th. Do better VA.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The letter was mailed on June 2nd, and we apologize for the date listed on the letter not being updated. On June 13th, we sent an email version of the letter to all those K2 Veterans for whom we had a valid email address. We are pleased that you received notification of this event. With regard to RallyPoint, if you already had a RallyPoint account, you would have been taken directly to the K2 page. If no account existed, then RallyPoint directs you to create an account before taking you to the requested page. We apologize for any inconvenience but are glad that you were able to navigate to the K2 page at RallyPoint and please that you attended the K2 Community Forum. We have reached out to all K2 Veterans for whom we have a valid address or email. If a K2 Veteran has not enrolled in VHA health care or has not submitted a claim with VBA then VA has no means to collect their contact information. We know that there are Veterans that do not use the VA, and thus, we asked that you share the letter with your fellow K2 Veterans to extend our reach. VA worked with several Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) to assist with the distribution of information.
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I got the same copy-and-paste BS. I asked some very specific questions about the declassified documents and I got (paraphrasing), "Here's a link to the documents so you can read them."