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Fort McClellan Veterans by State
Fort McClellan Veterans by State
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- Joe D. Hall - Anniston, AL
- Jeffrey W. Colclough - Phenix City, AL - Comment: Suffer from Degenerative Disc Disorder (have undergone 4 surgeries to spine); severe skin disorder; surgery to remove a large Nuerofibroma Tumor from Aorta, Left Lung, and Spine; long term tingling in fingers, hands, arms and legs....
- Maurice Holt - Anniston, AL - Comment: FMC 85-88
- Kevin Roper - Anniston, AL - Comment: went thru chem school in 98
- Michael E. Gilliam - Anniston, AL - Comment: Went to file for toxic chemical exposure, been tested and do have toxins in body. VA office said FMC isn't recognized. I suffer with medical problems and should be looked into asap.
- David Carroll - Piedmont, AL - Comment: I was stationed at FMC during 1984 - 1986 both while going through Chemical School and on Active Duty.
- John Henry Tolbert - Andalusia, AL
- Stewart Rudolph - McKenzie, AL
- Tyrone Crittendon - Georgiana, AL
- William Mobley - Georgiana, AL
- Sam Adams - RIver Falls, AL
- Odessa McConico Owens - Anniston, AL
- Jonathan Vancoille - Eclectic, AL
- Adam Shumann - Danville, AL
- Bryan K. Kite - Sylacauga, AL
- Rodgie W. Parker - Bessemer, AL
- Marcus Mason - Decatur, AL
- Craig Freer - Ohatchee, AL
- Name Private - Montgomery, AL
- Nancy Hunter - Phenix City, AL
- Homer Sneed - Brundidge, AL
- Vanessa Wilnerd (Ball) - Montgomery, AL
- Daniel Widner - Decatur, AL - Comment: Degenerative disk disease, 4 back surgeries, one neck surgery, psoriasis, lung problems including Legionaires Disease and have been hospitalized 3 times for pneumonia.
- Patrick A. Collins - Huntsville, AL
- Richard Matthews - Montgomery, AL
- William West - Calera, AL - Comment: At Ft Mc off and on from 1992 to 2000.
- Jennifer Smith - Laveen, AZ - Comment: I have cysts, ovarian issues, miscarriages, respiratory problems, constant cough, hair loss, balding and other unexplained issues for someone like myself who has lead a healthy lifestyle.
- Paul Montgomery - Anniston, AL - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan for 2 years with the 46 Engineers. I also worked for a contractor, for the chemical School for 14 years, on chemical equipment, and track vehicles. I have all type of health problems. Uncontrollable blood pressure. Body aches and pain, skin tags, that keep coming back after removal. teeth problems. all kinds of problems.
- Alfredo Raven - Jacksonville, AL - Comment: I served at Ft Mclellan from Jan 1964 until April 1964 during these period I went through the CHEMICAL BIOLOGYCAL AND RADIOLOGYCAL SCHOOL.. Later transferred to South Korea,and returned to Ft Mclellan on May 1965,asigned to the CHEMICAL FIELD SUPPORT SCHOOL until Nov 1966. I suffer from high blood pressure,diabetic,cramps in arms,and have had Open Heart Surgery,cuadruple bypass,and also suffer from lack of breathing. I was exposed to buried fields with radiation excercises, and manipulated nerve gas. Thank you-
- Susan Stinson - Montgomery, AL - Comment: I took basic training at Fort McClellan in 1975. I was diagnosed with cancer in 1980. I had to have a hysterectomy. Now, over the last 10 years, my teeth are falling out.... one by one.
- Jo Ann Smith - Mobile, AL - Comment: Stomach, gallbladder, bones breaking, cyst on kidney, thyroid, hormones, degenerative disc, arthritis, 2. Neck surgeries C45678, neuropathy, chronic pain, mental health issues ( Extreme Depression), suicide attempts, memory loss and the list goes on. The govt is pushing Mental Health and a lot of money is going to it. That is good because what we are going through can sure cause it.
- Joseph Charles Eads - Gulf Shores, AL
- Curtis C. Vinson - Anniston, AL - Comment: I was in the 151st Engineers in Anniston Al. and we trained at the Chemical School at Ft. McClellan Alabama.. We decon vehicle and personnel while in the Alabama National Guard and now I have arthritis in my knees, shoulder, neck and back.. I have had 2 neck surgery and 1 back surgery all because of toxic contamination..
- Stephanie Brown - Dothan, AL - Comment: Stage 3 breast cancer at age 40. Teeth suck. Probably more.
- Belinda Burke - Mobile, AL - Comment: Basic Training 1970
- Michael Eshenbaugh - Calera, AL - Comment: Do what is right Congress and don't take thirty years doing it!
- Larry Drake - Oxford, AL - Comment: Stationed at Ft. McClellan June 75 to Nov 76
- Carlyne B. (Williams) Willis - Toney, AL - Comment: I was station at Fort McClellan from 30 Nov 1976 to around March 1977. My contact info is firstname.lastname@example.com. I reside in Toney, AL. Hit me up.
- Patrick Gunter - Daphne, AL - Comment: I was stationed there in 1990 for MP school. I have been diagnosed with diabetes (no record of it on my father side). Arthritis in my knees. I have unexplained nerve pain in elbow. Psoriasis of face that at times is very severe. Degenerative joint disorder. I do not know if our "leaders" will ever get this covered for vets in my lifetime but maybe adding my voice will help.
- Stacey Ranger Cox - North Pole, AK- Comment: History of fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, headaches, chronic fatigue, memory and concentration issues, joint pain, IBS. I believe most of us have an autoimmune problem, to say the majority of us, and should be investigated and compensated. We need to stand up for our brothers and sisters in arms, and for all those before us who cannot. Stacey
- Patrick McCarthy - Nikiski, AK
- Anna Lewis - Soldontna, AK - Comment: Basic at FMC July 1975. Have had major health problems since.
- Clay Sellers - Anchorage, AK - Comment: FMC Jun 88/Oct 88
- Charlene Annette (McCarthy) Ebell - Houston, AK - Comment: I was company clerk, Charlie company basic training Battalion near Tiger land. I watched the pesticide men spraying Round-up close to the building many occasions. I got hives three times and never knew why. I have had problems like miscarriage, early births x2, learning disabilities in children and mental disabilities, next generation chromosome abnormalities, I have MS, severe arthritis and joint pain, I have had migraine headaches almost daily for years, difficulty walking straight, numbness in legs, hands. The joint pain came on suddenly and not over time. My civil service career was marred by my mind becoming affected by the MS without knowing I had a brain problem until nearly 62 years old. I have no compensation at all from any source
- Anita Carr - Phoenix, AZ - Comment: Stationed at Ft McClellan, Alabama from Aug 7, 1972 until Oct 3, 1972 for WAC Basic Training. Really would like a database so we can register all our illnesses and compare across the board. I believe we will see many reoccurences!
- Lois Bowden Lomba - Marana, AZ - Comment: WAC Basic Training 1/67 and Permanent Party 1967-1969.
- Susan Rastella - Phoenix, AZ - Comment: Basic Training March 1978 through June 1978.
- Lars Peterson - Phoenix, AZ - Comment: Stationed there for training 6/81 to 12/81. I have some medical issues to deal with now.
- Kevin Smith - Show Low, AZ - Comment: MonSATAN has profited to BILLION$ at the expense of Millions of lives endangered from Chemicals to GMO's in our food supply around the World (Mostly in the U.S. are GMO's Genetically Modified Organisms are still accepted). Why do American Politicians allow this to happen when it's been banned in many European Nations?
- Vivian Register - Phoenix, AZ - Comment: Diagnosed this past May with Breast Cancer. Having mastectomy 7/23/14. Did my boot-camp in 1978.
- Nancy Krause - Tucson, AZ - Comment: MP Training Jan 84 to April 84. Have had endometriosis, benign uterine fibroids, tumors, thyroid cancer, now non-hodgekinds lymphoma. Bouts of anxiety and depression.
- Eileen Garrido - Chandler, AZ - Comment: In 1974 I was at ft McClellan and not aware of this and my health not good and having a heart attack at a young age and other health problems I begin to see the cost. Please keep me inform I need help.
- Charlene Canty - Surprise, AZ - Comment: Ft McClellan 86-87
- Linda D. Morado - San Tan Valley, AZ
- Rita Stolzenberg - Oro Valley, AZ - Comment: I served in basic training at Ft. McClellan, AL
from January 29, 1963 to April 5, 1963. I have had hypothyroid, had a total
abdominal hysterectomy for pre-cancerous adenomyosis in 1989, was diagnosed
with psoriasis in 1995, and also diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis in 2006.
The hypothyroid, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are all autoimmune diseases.
Had I not had the total abdominal hysterectomy in 1989, I would have had
uterine cancer a year or two later. It is interesting that this is the first
time I am hearing about this. I was an Army WAC Medic (1963-1964) and in 1980 -
1992 I was a nurse in the U.S. Army Reserve, 364th General Hospital, Albany,
NY. I am active in the American Legion Post 132, Oro Valley, AZ, the Jewish
War Veterans, Friedman-Paul Post 201, Tucson, AZ and the Former WAC's. I found out about this today at the Former WAC's meeting. Evidently, many medical problems I've had could be associated with the ten weeks I spent at Fort McClellan.
- Traci Minium - Phoenix, AZ - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan in 1985. Very sick & can't figure out what is wrong with me. Lots of doctors and surgeries in the last ten years.
- Michael Frantz - San Tan Valley, AZ - Comment: Unexplained spots on right lung.
- Deanna Pence - Casa Grande, AZ
- Norman Drury - Mesa, AZ - Comment: B-40 MP, Sept 1987 to Feb 1988
- Debbie Veldhuis - Glendale, AZ - Comment: Was at Ft Mac in 1976. Diagnosed with Peripheral Neuropathy due to toxic exposure. Working on VA claim.
- J. - Campe Verde, AZ - Comment: I was at FTMC for basic and AIT. Like everyone else who learned of this toxic exposure from only other concerned FTMC Veterans, I was shocked, then I got angry. Now, I'm over it to a certain degree and I'm on a mission to bring justice to the sickest and the dead. Yes, I have some serious health concerns, knowing that they were brought on by the toxic exposure in the air, soil and water has answered some questions. Now, is the time for this Congress to right this injustice. America can ill afford to treat Veterans with such disregard for human health. Yes, I'm on a mission, please join me- demand the legislation we EARNED. Thank you.
- David Goodman - Tucson, AZ - Comment: I have DDD ,osteoarthritis of my spine. Had lumbar fusion in 2012... Recurring rashes on neck and chest.. Weakness, numbness, pain in my extremities..Bone loss in my jaw causing tooth loss, extreme fluctuation in blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, fatigue. FMC 83 to 84
- Dawn McMillen - Mesa, AZ - Comment: Was stationed at Ft McClellan in 1979. Had to
have a hysterectomy at 29yo. Records show multiple sick call visits during
Basic training - there at Ft McClellan for cold/flu symptoms, headache,
breathing issues, infection. (no one ever warned us, or cared to notice all the
illnesses and complaints - and yet they Knew! ! ! how irresponsible of all
those in charge who should have known better and done something about it.
So often we were up and out for PT before dawn - many mornings there was a thick, dense fog hanging in the air and we were face down in the damp ground doing push-ups all the time!
Drank a lot of the local tap water, there was No bottled water back then! Filling our canteens from whatever water spigot was near by.
Congress needs to pass HR411 and acknowledge that we were exposed to toxic chemicals! It is shameful enough that we were never told and they have been ignoring this Crisis. Time to do the right thing and honor all of the young men and women who served Uncle Sam. The corruption and neglect at the Phoenix VA Hospital is also disgraceful. Both the VA crisis and the Ft McClellan cover-up reflects poorly on this Country and how they treat their Veterans.
Why would any one, now-a-days, want to Voluntarily sign up to - just be discarded and treated so poorly for their effort?
All of the Denials, lies, cover-up, and deceit must stop.
We gave up A lot for our County - now it's your turn. (USA, Congress)
I urge all members of Congress to Vote Yes on HR411.
Prove once and for all that we are appreciated for all that we did, risking ours lives to serve our Country,
It's the right thing to do.
- Lori Galoppa Roady - Glendale, AZ - Comment: Just recently discovered this informaiton about toxic stuff at Fort McClellan. I was stationed there in August-December 1977 for Basic Training. I have had numerous health issues that still to this day are undiagnosed. Many of my symptoms are similar to what others who were stationed there are suffering from.
- Frankie Lyons - Lake Havasu City, AZ - Comment: GO ARMY!!!
- Brian Allen - Gilbert, AZ - Comment: Stationed at Ft McClellan from Nov 1990 to Jan 1991 and also Mar 1994 to Jul 1994
- T. Hollencamp - Mesa, AZ - Comment: joined in 1966 was there 10 weeks (basic and 2 zero weeks) joined with two friends from buff. n.y. two of us were infertile and had to have hysterectomies by 32yrs. thyroid ,heart trouble , memory trouble started early, hair loss neuroropathy, spinal stenosis etc etc...really hope to get the health registry going
- Naoma D. Ory - Peoria, AZ - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan from Oct 1964-Mar 1965, for basic training. I was in great health and had a great immune system, never getting sick growing up. Since then had one child with mental disability, hysterectomy at age 33, gallbladder removed, quadruple bypass surgery, migraine headaches, skin cancer, fiber myalgia, severe leg pain, to where I can hardly walk some days, severe depression and suicide attempts. There is a reason why all these things are happening and I need to find out why. Please help.
- Leslie Palmer - Yuma, AZ
- Sandra Mallach - Goodyear, AZ
- Walter Zikosky - Cottonwood, AZ
- Phyllis Ritter - Maricopa, AZ - Comment: Very disturbing!!! I served at Fort McClellan in '72. Just found out Monday March 2, 2015, when I stumbled across Facebook pages, youtube video's and news report, this base is considered one of the most toxic places in America. I have had unexplained neuropahty in my feet, gallbladder, appendix removed, hip replaced, back problems, type 2 diabetes, asthma and other issues. I feel the VA should recognize and notify All veterans that served at Fort McClellan Alabama. It is a shame that the government thinks it is too expensive to notify people. Public announcements are free!!
- Jerry M. Foster - Apache Junction, AZ - Comment: I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana. I attended boot camp in 1976 like many other women who joined the service. I have had a precancerous spot removed from one breast. I had a cancer spot removed from my back. I suffered fibroids in my uterus and had a complete hysterectomy. I have had arthritis for many years. I was so dismayed to discover that I had been exposed to these chemicals but it also made sense to me with the medical issues that I have. I have suffered depression for many years and finding out this does not help. I also have osteoporosis and must take medicines for that. I am tired of taking all the medication that I take and most of it, I feel, is due to the exposure at Fort McClellan and the WAC training at that site.
- Brian Betts - Blytheville, AR- Comment: oust 1992-1993
- Jerry M. Erickson - Conway, AR
- Jane Barrett Martin - Parthenon, AR
- Steven Prichard - Malvern, AR - Comment: I have had intestinal issues serving at McClellan. Just now hearing of this a few months ago. Fixing to start seeing my doctor the have tests run.
- Timothy Pierce - Bay, AR - Comment: OSUT March to July 1988
- Karen Page - Roland, AR - Comment: Basic & AIT 79-80
- Robert Dyess - Jonesboro, AR
- Richard Fisher - Russellville, AR - Comment: I was stationed at FMC for my BT & AIT from May 1979 to Sep 1979. I have been having issues with skin cancer for years and I have painful elbow joints. I am currently being treated by the VA hospital in Little Rock for my conditions.
- Brian Clark - Searcy, AR - Comment: Basic in 89
- Carol Bettro Coleman - Lavaca, AR - Comment: Ft McClellan BT July '78, OJT '79
- Richard Luper - Jonesboro, AR - Comment: Station 94 Basic & AIT.... return for duty 96-98
- Steven C. Ingram - Austin, AR - Comment: MP Basic/AIT Aug 1978-Nov 1978. Have breathing problems, nasal polyps, gout, numbness in feet and toes, and ringing in the ears
- Stephanie Hoover McCalister - Eureka Springs, AR - Comment: my daughter had a stage 2 brain tumor that we were told she likely had since birth (1978), it was removed in 2012 when she was suffering blinding headaches, and between the tumor & the following chemo treatment, it's been life altering for her. I want to be sure I'm accounted for properly, for her sake. Thank you
- James Todd - Huntsville, AL - Comment: Basic & AIT May - Sept 1988
- Gary Gaither - Lonoke, AK
- William H. (Bill) Willard - Ridgecrest, CA Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan for MP School, from December 1980 to February 1981.
- Tommy Cruz - Temecula, CA
- Ray Pulliam - Hollister, CA
- Kathy Lehman - Novato, CA
- Gregory Cranor - Sacramento, CA
- Richard C. Hammang - Torrance, CA
- Sally A. Hartwell - Moreno Valley, CA - Comment: Basic training, 1974 - Cervical cancer; three children, one with a genetic disorder and one with learning disabilities; four grandchildren, one with learning disabilities, one with slow development and speech disorders; now I am diagnosed with indeterminate fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, migraines, asthma, chronic back pain, depression, PTSD, and myriad other issues. Sound familiar?
- Katrina Howard - Victorville, CA - Comment: I have the following issues...Migraines, eczema (no one in my family has this), had cervical cancer, living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS, this causes female hormonal problems, weight gain, hair grown like in men), Degenerative Disk Disease...these are a few
- George Babineau - Phelan, CA
- Lisa Beadle Liles - Exeter, CA
- Emmett Bryant - Hesperia, CA - Comment: Ft. Mac 1988 54B Lima 5
- Valerie Pettegrew - Lafayette, CA - Comment: Basic Training Nov 74-Jan 75 at Fort M, breast cancer twice and multiple nodules on thyroid
- Sherry More - Los Angeles, CA - Comment: Basic Training 1974. Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Mitral Valve Issues, Autoimmune Issues, Low Kidney Function.
- Jessyca Norman - San Diego, CA - Comment: Degenerative disc disease, L3,4,5-S1 replaced by Global Fusion with pins, rods and screws.(but spine did not fully fuse, there are still large holes) Chronic back pain, currently have a Spinal Cord Implant along my spine. Narrowing of spinal canal, chronic migraines, fibromyalgia, C-2,3 degenerating and need to be replaced. Multiple LES stress fractures within months of leaving FT. Mac and Dr.'s unable to find a reason, early onset osteoporosis. Rapid-growing ovarian cysts, miscarriages. Joint and hip issues. Stomach issues, Having another back surgery late Jan 2014 because my body keeps rejecting the hardware/implants, but Dr.'s can't figure out exactly why. These are some of the major issues I have faced since leaving Ft. Mac in May 1998. The list goes on and sadly, it is still growing.
- Belinda Mitchell - Sacremento, CA - Comment: Ft McClellan 1986 (basic and ait Military Police) and 1988 (Corrections School) Had a hysterectomy at 40yrs cysts the size of a small watermelon I was told,migrains that partially paralyze the skin on my hands gets so dark and thick I have to peel it off...there's more but I'm tired of typing!!!
- Rebecca Hammond - Manteca, CA - Comment: Stationed at ft Mac in 7/86/-9/86. Several problems since stationed there. I never felt worse than those months I was there. Upon leaving I started getting unbearable migraines, blurred vision, chest pains mimicking heart attack, numbness in feet hands and under tongue, cervical cancer, cysts in overies, endometriosis at age 25, disc in spine disintegrating, blisters on hands and bottom of feet, cyst type acne. The list goes on and on. I stopped going to the doctor because they would just look at me like I was nuts! I joined the army at 17 and have suffered a life time of ailments! I am now 45 and getting worse. There are not words to describe what our government has done to us!
- Marjorie - Sacramento, CA - Comment: I separated from the army in 1996. During my stay I got asthma. TO my surprise 5 yrs later I started premenopause at age 34. Ive been sterile ever since. In 2008 I was diagnosed with Chiari malformation with syrinx. Also Rbbb. I have severe arthritis also at such a young age..I am now 43 and have the body of a 70 yr old person. I feel the Army took away my chances to have children n create a family. Not as serious as some my say,but to me..I am devastated.
- Christine Butler - Atascadero, CA - Comment: Basic Training at Fort McClellan in 1977 at age 17, unable to conceive & have no children, diagnosed with thyroid cancer with nods on both sides, 2 surgeries and radioactive treatment, recurring skin conditions, on synthroid the rest of my life and frequent lab work to monitor my levels due to removal of thyroid.
- Gary LaHue - Modesto, CA - Comment: Was at FMC 1982 Basic Training and AIT. 52 years old need two knee replacements, have type 2 diabetes, degenerative discs on back, muscle spasms, osteoarthritis, children have auto immune diseases.
- Judy Hardinge - Fresno, CA - Comment: Hi, I saw you posting and although it was some time ago, I'm writing per your
invitation to share my health experience.
I have all my military records from the original enlistment contract on down. Enlisted in the WAC at 21 years of age Dec 2, 1974, assigned to Ft Mac reporting Dec 3. Departed to Ft Ben Harrison for Legal Clerk school 13 Feb. Stayed over in Ft Mac for Christmas company. I'm now 60 yrs old.
I have had relatively good health although I suffered with migraine headaches for years. Never had an MRI and doctor always said it was hormonal (usual, given to women). Although I was married for several years, could not get pregnant. Finally did get pregnant in the early 1990's and miscarried at 3 months, suspected tubal pregnancy. Continued to have pain that lead to laser surgery where doctor found extreme endometriosis - 4 hrs to clean that up. He said after surgery I should be able to conceive - never did again although married for 17 years with no birth control. Oh, uterine fibroids too.
Continued to have headaches. In 2005, had a grand mal seizure while living overseas (working for State Dpt funded program). Had emergency brain surgery to excise 2.5 cm brain tumor,meningioma, non-malignant. Have extensive records, MRI's, reports, etc...in hospital 2 weeks, off work 3 months, no driving 6 months, and on anti-seizure medication to this day.
Return to U.S. in 2008. Registered for VA health care in 2009 as I had no insurance and needed anti-seizure medication which I pay on co-pay. Have not discussed this issue with them as they will just think I'm a nut. In fact, when I bring it up to anyone, and I'm not a hysteric type, I wished I had not mentioned it.
Now having some problems with pain in my neck - X-ray indicates deteriorating bones in neck.VA prescribes anti-anxiety medication, muscle relaxer.
There is no family history of brain tumors, infertility, or early on-set arthritis. All family members live into late 80's-90's. Mother is 84 in excellent health.
So my concern is what is down the road. Okay for the moment.
- Sarah Immel - Castro Valley, CA - Comment: I did Basic/AIT 95B at Fort McClellan~ Feb 1996/July-1996. My mother also did her Basic training there also many years before me (WAC). Right after basic/ait I noticed I had numbness (neuropathy) in the front portion of both hips, right side is much worse (and has not gone away yet), noticed a small area on left palm that is discolored, and also (embarrassing to mention but..) I noticed I started to get facial hair growth, mentioning in case other females have had this happen also. The facial hair growth has gotten much worse over the years, no other females in my family have this!! I've been out for many years now, I have suffered from depression, headaches, nausea, memory has gotten bad, I get neuropathy in my hands and feet, feel fatigued a lot, joint pain, I get bursitis in my hip and shoulder, had my gall bladder removed (34 triangular shaped stones), had a Lipoma removed from my back peach pit sized (caused severe burning back pain), my clavicle bone over the years has become uneven (not sure if it was from a car accident I was in though) , I had surgery on my right foot, ankle joint area became uneven (I did sprain the same ankle though 9 years prior when I was in the army). Basically I am 36 year old woman and feel like I am 60-70 Y/O..... Thank you for reading.
- Dee - Solano County, CA
- Elvie Hukill - Vacaville, CA - Comment: I'm a 50 year old female that did my Basic Training at Ft McClellan from Oct 1981 to Jan 1982.
- Kathleen Ahart - Kelseyville, CA - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan from Jan 1990 to June 1990 for Basic/AIT
- James W. Beane - Richmond, CA - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan in the fall of 1978. I completed Army basic training and Military Police School on base. I have several health problems that I feel may be related to my exposure to toxic substances at Fort McClellan.
- Matthew W. - Gridley, CA - Comment: Every level of my cervical and lumbar spine need surgical repair, melanoma x 3, IBS on/off for 30 years, migraines and cluster headaches in the 80s-90s, 3 head surgeries, shoulder joints, right kidney, liver issues, more fun will be added at a later date! Too much to list!
- Tim Kunze - Huntington Beach, CA - Comment: I went through (Reserve) basic training at Ft. Mac in 1989. In the late 1990s, I developed neuropathy which has now been diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic as a pair of varieties (Chronic Immune Sensory Polyradiculopathy (CISP) and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)). I left the Army Reserves in 1990 to enter the Air Force and have a total of nine years, five months and two days active duty (post-Viet Nam and pre-Desert Storm).
- Carolina L. Buster - Sonoa, CA - Comment: Broke first bone during training, incurred both medial and mental health disorders on active duty, diagnosed by VA for Hashimoto' (autoimmune) Thyroiditis, and after ten years and a host of medical and mental health problems, diagnosed with autoimmune disorder Addison's Disease, Schmidt's syndrome. These two constitute Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndrome II. Onset on symptoms: OSUT, one Station unit Training, 5 months and 22 days at Ft. McClellan, AL.
- Richard J. Hebert, Jr. - Canyon Country, CA - Comment: FMC for OSUT in 1980, spent 3 AT with USAR in the late 80's (6 more weeks)
- Beverly Anderson - Rancho Cordova, CA - Comment: Thank you for this great resource to us all. I
was at Ft. McClellan the summer of 1972 where I completed basic training out of
Charlie Company in the Women's Army Corp. I've had one early miscarriage. My
first born had hip dysplasia and developed autism spectrum disorders and severe
double major lumbar curvature of the spine. My second born was hypersensitive
to his environment and developed juvenile diabetes before turning ten. By the
tenth anniversary of my Ft McClellan toxic exposures I had a duodenal ulcer,
ulcerative colitis, CIN IV cervix, Stage III uterine dysplasia, chronic
appendicitis caught before rupture by removal incidental to exploratory
surgery, both knees and left elbow had popped out of joint, all the ligaments
and tendons tore away in a running injury. In my 30s and 40s it was suspected I
had chronic fatigue from Lyme's disease. Last fall I pushed for answers and add
to this three confirmed autoimmune disorders: Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Vitiligo
and Celiac Sprue. First and 2nd orthopedic surgeon's consultations show ne to
have the skeletal structure of an 80 year old laborer's. In my spine I have
anterolisthesis, l stenosis, foramenal narrowing, reduced disk space and bone
spurring. I have lost most of the cartilage in my body. I have my left knee
replaced and been told my right knee and left hip need replaced. My wrists
described as trashed. Where the bones should look like melted cubes, mine look
like spiny squares. I have had a psoriasis like rash for since 1990.i have
premature ventricular contraction of my heart and right branch bundle block.
Blood tests show an inflammation over 1000 that can't be identified for the
cause. I have pigmentary dispersion syndrome which causes glaucoma like
symptoms and cataracts. I have had the obe in my right eye removed. Additionally, I have left CIF Degenerative Joint and Disc Disease, Peripheral Neuropathy, muscle tics, spasms & seizures, severe TM.
My children abd my health is anomalous in our families. I believe our brojen health is from my drinking and showering in highly toxic water at Ft McClellan, Alabama.
- Name Withheld - Los Angeles, CA - Comment: child with MS, hysterectomy (tumors)
- Gina M. Strickland - San Diego, CA - Comment: Basic Training October to December 1985 E Company 1st Battalion. I have Thyroid issues later resulting in the loss of my thyroid, severe obstructive sleep apnea, degenerative disk disease, 3 breast lumps removed, joint and muscle pain.
- Thomas Cruz - Temecula, CA - Comment: Exposed to VX and Sarin 1994
- Ginny Downs - Porterville, CA
- Belita Edwards Khalil - Los Angeles, CA
- David Johnson - Kaweah, CA
- Robert Schuette - Pinole, CA - Comment: I have multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, along with the knee joint problems but those are minor. I was at Fort Mac for basic training AIT military police June 1980 -October 1980
- Dennis Payne - Paradise, CA - Comment: 1997 - 7 months
- Tim Hosker - Stockton, CA - Comment: I attended Basic and AIT at Ft. McCellan as a
Military Police Corrections Specialist, 95C, from July to November of 1994. In
my early 30's, I had a soft tissue sarcoma appear on my head. Didn't think anything
about it. Started suffering from depression and urinary problems in my
mid-30's. Then, when I was 38, I had a heart attack that they are not able to
diagnose. Since then I have had numerous symptoms of auto-immune and
neurological diseases that my doctors are trying to diagnose. Degenerative
disc's in lower back, atrophied Pituitary Gland, short term memory problems and
confusion, several problems with my skin, migraine like exertion headaches,
problems urinating, erectile dysfunction! and sleep apnea.
My first born has a PDD (Autism) and was born with a inborn heart anomaly which
caused him to have a heart attack at 17.
- Tracy Hixon - Shingletown, CA - Comment: I served 20 years in the Military Police Corps. During that time I served at Fort McClellan several times. Looking back I know I was already sick back then, migraines, flu like symptoms lasting over a year, etc. In 2007, after being retired for 6 years, I got really sick. Unexplained lymphomas growing all over inside my body caused so much pain I was unable to even get up most of the time. Pain medications didn't help. I was on my back for a couple of years while these lumps grew first on the right side of my body, then the left..fun stuff. I went to 16 different specialists. Was told I had MS because of brain lesions...not true, lesions are in the wrong location for MS. Got diagnosed with lipedema by a specialist in San Diego. A rare, normally hereditary disease. There is no family history of this disease, ever. I haven't gotten a good nights sleep in years now, it is painful, having lymphomas everywhere, no matter how you lay, in a few minutes the pain/discomfort is going to wake you up. Although I am able to move now, I think I just got better at ignoring the constant pain. Gastrointestinal problems, yes, IBS and now malabsorption, thank you very much Monsanto. I have not gone in to the VA yet. I have not walked onto a military installation since I got my retired ID card in 2001. I am so deeply angry and feeling so betrayed by my country and their cowardly behavior about what they have done to not only me, but to all of us who, in serving our country, were murdered by her from the behind....the VA is so far behind on claims now, filing is a useless endeavor. I want the government and the VA to acknowledge what they have done, notify everyone who is effected, and give us presumptive status, immediately. I will do what I can to help to make that happen.
- Sally A. Smith Majestic - Sacramento, CA
- Theodore A. Methvin Jr. - Shasta Lake, CA - Comment: I have very high blood pressure. Had a very hard time conceiving kids. I have a body full of skin tags. headaches, some type of bone mass on my femur, memory issues, very low good cholesterol, teeth falling out and going bad even though i had perfect teeth., etc. i think the government needs to help those who served
- Ramon Welliver - Cottonwood, CA - Comment: 1966-67 1968-69 NCOIC tonic agent yard.
- Gloria (Cribbs) Welliver - Cottonwood, CA - Comment: 1967-69.
- Tom Jasper - Tollhouse, CA - Comment: This issue needs more attention and support. Please do whatever you can to assist the thousands of service members who were unknowingly exposed to toxins. Thank you.
- Nancy Paine - San Diego, CA - Comment: I was in basic training at Fort McClellan from November of 1972 to January of 1973. I currently have unexplainable aches and pains throughout my body. I need more information.
- Donna (McNabb) Loyst - Temecula, CA - Comment: Basic Training in '75, have experienced horrible memory issues, debilitating migraines, a chronic cough and breast fibroids. Had an ectopic pregnancy. There is a rash on my arm that no doctor can explain or diagnose. Suffer from depression and now have arthritis that has shown up literally overnight. Worried to see what else shows up as I get older
- Sylvia Palma - Redwood City, CA
- Daniel Moreska - Sacramento, CA - Comment: Basic & MP school Jan83-June83. I've had Epilepsy since ETS. Lots of Mental Health problems. Reproductive
problems, I'm 50 now and have no kids
I take 19 pills 2x a day to lower seizure threshold. Constant tremors in my hands and voice.
- Diane Schulz - Van Nuys, CA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan in early 1975 for Womens Basic Training. Not only do i have Thyroid issues as well as degenerative disc and joint disease, but my daughter has degenerative disease and mixed connective tissue disease (all of which is on the presumptive list) My PCP ordered an Agent Orange exam as I was exposed in Thailand after AIT. I have been denied an exam being told that Ft McClellan is not being recognized as a site of exposure. And even though Thailand had the "one boot rule" i don't qualify because i was deployed 3 months after the cutoff date of may 1975 (i went over in aug 1975--tell me could they really clean that up i 3 months? I was told by the person scheduling the exams that she was denying me and that she had to focus more on men who needed it. So in addition to the above being a woman is being held against me. Ive been dealing with my ailments for years and am medically retired. My daughter, on the other hand is only 24 and has already been dealing with this since age 18 . The army poisoned us and it was passed down to our offspring. How long are we going to be ignored. If the registry is passed will our effected dependents be eligible for treatment and/or compensation? Yes Im angry-being abused by the military is a given--but not don't mess with my child!
- Gilda Sanchez - Avocado Heights, CA - Comment: Basic Training in Ft. Mac. 1969/WAC
I suffer Severe Fibromyalgia, arthritis, herniated discs on lower back, sciatica, surgery on left shoulder. Older son was born with Spondylolisthesis, daughter gland problems, younger son ruptured appendix and thickening of the gallbladder.
- Emma Derry - Mckinleyville, CA - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McCullan, All. from Jan.-March 1970. I was exposed to agent orange. It was in our air,soil, food, and water. I suffer from much pain from my teeth. They are breaking off and falling out. My balance is off and I have suffered from my whole body swelling and breaking out in hives. Such awful inching. I also suffer from PTSD and anxiety depression. I can no longer work. I have 100% disability because everything got worse. Thank you, Emma Derry
- Dolores Jean Aguilar (Helm) - Denver, CO - Comment: I was stationed at FMC from July 1980 to Nov 1980 for basic
- Warren Martin - Oceanside, CA - Comment: Neurological issues, skin disorders, first child born with autism, wife went through five miscarraiges (possible linked), arterial issues, Ft. McClellan 1982-1983
- Mary-Ann Coronado - Temecula, CA - Comment: Multiple Myeloma, Degenerative Disk Disease, Arthritic Knees, and many more issues. FTM 1987 Mar-Jun
- Brian White - Wrightwood, CA - Comment: I have suffered from what doctors call IBS. The doctor thinks I have fibromyalgia and I have joint problem in my lower back. I just found out about what is going on.
- Troy McCoy - Paynes Creek, CA - Comment: Stationed at Ft. Mcclellan in 1986 for basic and AIT. Attended some advanced mp training after. Diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2014 at the age of 46. Makes me wonder.
- Lori Ann Angell - Sacramento, CA - Comment: I spent basic training and military police school at Fort McClellan. I have several health problems related to toxins present there. Not only do I want compensation, but believe the company should be responsible for all cleanup and fined. Get to work EPA and enforce the rules. Earth is all we have left for generations to come and they deserve the Sam opportunities as every citizen!!!
- Wayne Henry Hayden - La Porte, CO - Comment: After suffering for 40 years, and experiencing symptoms while serving at Ft McClellan, I am very happy to be part of this SPECIAL GROUP. THANK YOU for all you do.
- Jennifer Hoel Burkey - Sterling, CO - Comment: At Fort McClellan from March to May of 1978....infertility followed with severe edometriosis for several years before ending with a total hysterectomy at age 31....diabetes type 2....hypothyroid...IBS.....tooth loss in upper and lower jaw...High blood pressure....lipids, ect.....foot and knee pain
- Donna Dorst Abenroth - Peyton, CO - Comment: In 2004 I was diagnosed with a potential mitochondrial defect as well as idiopathic peripheral neuropathy- primarily affecting my legs. I heard about the Ft. McCellan issue this past weekend so all my diagnosis and treatment has so far been in the civilian sector. I did basic training at Ft. McClellan in 1970- about 10 years ago I developed what the doctors term as 'idiopathic peripheral neuropathy (i.e. no known cause) I just learned about the chemicals at the base & the potential damage and want to learn more since my condition is progressing and making mobility very difficult
- Beth Hunter - Colorado Springs, CO
- Stephen Cox - Berthoud, CO
- Melanie Anne Ryan - Colorado Springs, CO
- Brian Robinson - Ft. Collins, CO - Comment: Basic/ AIT June-Oct 1982- Military Police. About 5 years ago had sudden onset of arthritis, followed in a few months with several bouts of pneumonia and muscle weakness. Diagnosed with "Polymyositis with Interstitial Lung Disease"- an autoimmune disorder. Asked the Dr. today if it could have been caused by environmental exposure. He said, "yes, potentially, if you were ever exposed to some kind of inhaled toxin. It could take years to surface, but there's no way really to know for sure. But its definitely a possibility". I am having to change jobs because I am unable to perform comfortably at my current position. Also listed with ADA at 49 years old.
- Mic Robertson - Colorado Springs, CO - Comment: Atypical RP, Sjogrens Syndrome, fibromyalgia, renal failure, COPD, etc. FMC Basic 1974
- Mike Wilson - Pueblo, CO
- Name Withheld - Grand Junction, CO
- Herb H. Betts - Centennial, CO
- Charlotte Stubbs - Whitewater, CO - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan in March of 1974 for basic training. I'd love to hear from others who were there at the same time. I suffer from a long list of physical problems. I was in basic at Ft Mac in March 1974. I developed Asthma (no family history) soon after basic. Now I have TOS, CPS, DDD, DJD, PTSD, skin problems, heart problems, chronic neuropathy, and a host of other diseases. I cough all the time, sometimes to the point of throwing up. I can't seem to feel comfortable in my body any more. I'm in pain all the time and am trying to hang on long enough to get justice.
- Kirsten Willis - Castle Rock, CO - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan in 1998. Since that time, I developed Degenerative Disc Disease at 4 levels in my spine, acute spinal stenosis and had to have surgery by age 26. I have also had multiple occasions of skin cancer.
- Joe Bennett - Firestone, CO
- Darlene Hurley - Colorado Springs, CO
- Elizabeth (Wamsley) Sellars - Colorado Springs, CO - Comment: Hello All, I was at Ft. MAC Feb 96 - June 96. I too have a great many issues as the rest of you. I have severe neuropathy that begins at the top of my buttocks, and radiates down each leg into the tips of my toes. My C, T, L, & S spine has DDD. I have had four spinal fusion surgeries, for L, 4 & 5, to S-1. I also have bone spurs in my hip sockets. C 3, 4, 5 have all slipped, and are now resting to the left side of my next which has a cyst that is believed to be spinal fluid, therefore no doctor, or surgeon will touch it. My left rotator cuff is bone on bone, from tissue erosion. So with the discs, and shoulder, it feels like what I would imagine a heart attack does, but my chest, shoulder, and ribs become so constricted that it is hard to breathe. I also had a hysterectomy at 36 due to uterine fibroids, and ovarian cysts which I had removed on 4 previous occasions. I had PCOS. I have severe migraines, which distort my speech, vision, and create a feeling of numbness or out of body experience....very difficult to explain. I suffer from chronic sinusitis, have a 75% deviated septum, and severe ear aches, .I have been diagnosed with multiple mutations of blood clotting conditions, and was curious if anyone else has this. I had difficult time getting pregnant as a result of the blood disorder, and finally after 10 years of trying I have three children all of which have autism, ADHD, or ADD, and learning disabilities, and one has cleft lip & palate. I have been diagnosed as having major depressive disorder. Had a positive Lupus test result, but have no signs of Lupus, and no one in my family has it. I have had multiple tooth infections despite adamant dental care. I have recently found a lump in my neck near my thyroid, and I am trying not to panic, but I would be lying if I said I weren't concerned. I will call the doctor on Monday. I know there is more to share, but I have written enough. I pray for each of us.
- Todd Costa - Colorado Springs, CO - Comment: Chem school @ Ft Mc as a 54echo10 in summer of 80 attending NBC school. Now at 53 yes old I have had 7 surgeries relating to diabetes/heart issues resulting in amputation, vascular surgeries etc. With a possible amp of leg in near future. Came across this info recently & moving forward with trying to obtain SSDI & joining the growing roster of fellow comrades. Together we still stand strong.
- Ricky L. Stegmaier - Denver, CO - Comment: Cardio Myalgia, asthma, Type 2 diabetes, Fibromyalgia, memory loss, panic disorders, etc.
- Betsy A. Lillis - Aurora, CO - Comment: Took Basic Training at FMC from June 1958-August 1958. I developed heart disease 1999 and had breast cancer 2011-12.
- Jeffrey "Sarge" Gish - Avon, CO - Comment: Stationed there in 1985. I have been telling my wife for years that place is the reason for my health problems. I want to more involved with the group. Please feel free to contact me anytime. Thanks.
- David Patterson - Greeley, CO - Comment: Pray for all of us please! Left shoulder repaired while in service, and I'm now having to have both knees replaced. 52 years old and have the joints of an 80 year old and severe arthritis in both hands.
- Ricky Stegmaier - Denver, CO - Comment: These are my ailments: PREMATURE TOOTH LOSS,PICKWICKIAN SYNDROME, CARDIOMEGALY (ENLARGED HEART), PANIC DISORDER, OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA, ADULT DIABETES TYPE 2, ASTHMA EXERCISE INDUCED, CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROME, OBESITY (BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) 50 OR GREATER, PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY, ADJUSTMENT DISORDER W/ DEPRESSED MOOD, BOTH SIDES TINNITUS, BILATERAL CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME, HYPERTENSION (HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE), INSOMNIA, DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TESTICULAR FAILURE WITH HYPOGONADISM, ARTHRITIS (SHOULDERS, HIPS, KNEES, ANKLES, FEET)
- Denny Symes - Fort Collins, CO - Comment: Type1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, joint pain, my daughters ended up with different immune deficiency diseases, including lupus, sjogrens, eosiniphilic colitis
- Lorelee (Parker) Crenfell - West Haven, CT - Comment: I did my basic at Ft. McClellan starting in Jan 1973. After basic I went to Ft. Devens. To date I have Congestive Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes 2, terrible neuropathy in my feet and legs. My body is covered in skin tags. The worse part is they can't find a reason for my heart problems. I just need to know!!!
- Name Withheld - Wallingford, CT
- Name Withheld - Winstead, CT - Comment: Fibromyalgia, Migraines, skin issues with blistering (hands and feet shed like a snake), Degenerative Discs, nerve issues where nerves misfire also. Full Hysterectomy at age 35 with grapefruit sized tumors and lesions. One daughter born with inactive thyroid and another daughter born with joint issues.
- Yolanda Cruz - Rocky Hill, CT - Comment: I am a veteran and got so much help with my
claim at the Rocky Hill veterans home I am 100% service disconnected.. There is
a man that works for the Vietnam Veterans but is currently helping others to
get claims through with great results his name is John Cutler email@example.com is his email.
There is a meeting about this here in CT. September 6th. He also is in contact
with a movie producer that is coming out with a movie in October or September
called TOXIC SERVICE by http://emptypipecreations.wix.com/toxicservice
by Ted Methvin . People need to get together call Helen at the Rocky Hill
Veterans Home she is a Veteran staying there. There are two other women from
other states currently here getting help and examinations. There also is a
lawyer that works exclusively for the veterans. I cannot remember her name
right now but will update it. Get the media involved
- Dawn (Daigle) Doyle - South Windham, CT - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan from Jan to May 83 for basic training and MP AIT. At B-10 OSUT. I my first daughter in May 85. Her father is also an MP. She was 3 weeks late and born without problem, but the cartilage in her left ear didn't form all the way. There is no reason for the birth defect, except for toxins in my body and possibly her father. I started having hair loss in patches in 86. I had my second daughter in April 88. I found out I had cervical cancer in May 88. I have had so many surgeries for cysts in my lower abdominal region. I had a hysterectomy in 89. Luckily I had my kids early but what if I wanted more? I had to have both my ovaries removed one at a time because of cysts. Even after everything was gone I was still getting cysts until 2006, which was my last surgery for cysts. I don't know if this has happened to anyone,but I over produce calcium in my body now, which creates kidney stones. I get migraines. One of my optic nerves is thinning on the bottom.
- Bartholomew (Bart) W. Conti - Fairfield, CT
- Gregory S. Gyarmati - Felton, DE - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan for MP One Station Unit Training (OSUT) from March to July 1983, BNCOC from October to December 1991 and ANCOC from March to June 1999.
- Dawn Drzewicki - Frankford, DE - Comment: I was stationed at FMC from 7/78 to 12/78 for MP School.
- Raymond F. Cich, Jr. - Punta Gordon, FL - Comment: Although I have not suffered from any {that I know of}; Ailments associated with the {P.C.B.'s}; Toxic Chemicals that were introduced to the environment in and/or around Fort Mc.Clellan, Alabama!?! I have no doubt that there were others' that have been inflicted by adverse illnesses. Some that may have died from those ailments that could of been caused by those chemicals that had been dumped at Fort Mc.Clellan where they trained and/or served!!! It is an outrage that the country that we swore to protect and serve. Has now turned it's back upon us?!? The 'Bill' that we are proposing is to ensure that we will first of all Receive Screening for possible illnesses that are linked to those types of chemical exposure. Then if it is found that these 'Veterans' are sick, the applicable treatment is provided and some sort of re-compensation is provided to the 'Veteran' and their Family!?!?!
^* Please; don't do to us, what those legislators' had done to the Veterans that had returned from Vietnam. Treating them as if they were making their illnesses up. Making them feel as if the were crazy. Or worse; that they were malingerer's... just trying to squeeze a quick buck out of 'Uncle Sam'?!?!? We already know, what these Toxic Chemicals can do!?! We know that they were present in the area's that we were in. We also know that people in the surrounding town, have suffered the effects of those chemicals. Why is it that the Government, has made it so hard. For us Veterans/Service Members' to present claims for help from those who said they would take care of us????? Please; Think about that, before the next time that you make a statement. About how much you love this Country and those who Serve('d) it!!!!!
- Patricia Williams - Port Orange, FL
- Jennifer Sames - Keystone Heights, FL
- James M. Beucher - St. Petersburg, FL - Comment: Went through basic and AIT at Ft. McClellan in 1977
- Joseph A. Masterson - Crestview, FL
- Jeff Wilson - Palm Coast, FL - Comment: Jan 1986 to May 1986 Basic Training and AIT
- Darrell Burchett - Riverview, FL
- Mark Apsey - Osprey, FL - Comment: I stationed at McLellan from 1962 until March, 1964 and spent time in the Hospital there as a result of losing my physical coordination. I was awarded 10% disability upon Honorable Discharge for what my VA records say is "Traumatic Brain Disease.",,,,My entire Medical Records have nysteriously disappeared . I just was diagnosed with "pre carcinogenic cancer of the Bladder. There is no history of cancer in my family. I have ringing oif the ears and have never been able to concentrate on anything.......I have managed to get thru life and raise 3 children who are contributing members of Society.
- Raymond Dionne - Casselberry, FL - Comment: I attended MP School Early Sept 1976-Nov 1976 in
the old World War 2 era barracks. They were located on somewhat of a steep
hill. If you know what bldg numbers they were, I would appreciate a response.
The chapel was on top of the hill and we used to walk downhill, took a short
cut through the woods to go to the theater.
Shortly after leaving the Army, I would get sharp pains in my chest when I took breathes. I now have asthma.
I found out later in 1986 that I couldn't have children due to shooting blanks. Got checked out, doctor said he didn't see anything wrong.
I am now 57 experiencing severe arthritic pain in my hands, elbows and knees.
I forget things now more often; I have sessions of hyper-activity and nervousness. I already have had skin cancer carved off of my chest.
I hope that a solution is obtained with the Govt., the VA and all the powers that be to acknowledge this sad state of affairs with Ft. McClellan's exposing us soldiers with chemical contaminants.
- Shawn Scott - Spring Hill, FL
- James N. Sackaris - Port Orange, FL - Comment: Basic Training at Ft McClellan in 1979.
- Ben Sutphin - Deltona, FL - Comment: Basic Training July-October 1979
- William Britton - Sarasota, FL - Comment: Basic training 10/84 - 2/85 (Delta 10) Heart attack at age 43. Advanced heart disease. Diabetes, Neurological issues, and generally feel ill all the time. Doctors can't figure out what is wrong.
- Willa - Tallahassee, FL - Comment: Basic training at Ft. Mac Jan-Apr 1976. I have osteoarthritis in both knees and one hip right now. I have always been very active but now feel run down all the time.
- Danny Scott Rowland - Holiday, FL - Comment: I spent basic training and AIT at FMC. MP 95B. I now have pancreatic cancer, I'm shocked that the veterans will not recognize this place as an issue.
- Lorrie L. Sabatelli - San Antonio, FL - Comment: I attended Ft. McClellan for my basic training during 1987. I currently have a 40% disability from my time in the Army for a back injury and I was diagnosed with auto-immune issues about 15 yrs ago. For years my ANA would come back positive but the doctors could never figure out what was wrong. Then one day they came back with Sjogren's disease and at one point it was scleroderma. I was recently diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by the VA and I figured it was because they couldn't find anything else. I lost my teaching job because of my disability and my illness and I'm about to lose my house. I came across this website by chance and I'm glad I did. I was a normal happy healthy teenager, but ever since I was in the military I have had nothing but one issue after another and now I know why.
- Gail A. Spink - Crescent City, FL - Comment: Constant cough. Never smoked. Tingling in fingers and hands & severe pain in legs.
- Kevin Brown - Marco Island, FL - Comment: I cough all the time. I've always wondered why. Doctors have told me I have spots on my lungs and it's "not" cancer. Hmmmm. I spent 4 months at FMC for MP basic training. I see this and wonder?????
- Carol (Susie) Cutler Hill - Sarasota, FL - Comment: I have been sick for 40 years, I couldn't figure out why I was so sick with every imaginable thing out there. I worked through so much until I had a complete breakdown in 2007. I never had the same job for over 2 years, by that time my bosses would always figure out I was sick and would move me to another position. I no longer have a relationship with my brother because I got tired of him calling me a hypochondriac! Anyway, please let me know what I can do to help this Ft McClellan situation get the recognition it deserves. My son was born 6 weeks early and his kidneys make dozens of kidney stones at a time! A short list of what's wrong with me: Heart Surgery at 52, CAD, PAD, degenerative Disc disease, Chronic Fatigue, Hyper Somnia, HBP, Thyroid, Numbness in legs/arms, tias, brain lesions, major depression/anxiety, PTSD, hearing loss, arthritis, fibromyalgia, cognitive and memory issues. And the list goes on.....
- James I Maxwell - Madeira Beach, FL - Comment: Triglycerides 990 no family history/cholesterol 1000+ again no history/ type 2 diabetes no family history, degenerative disk disease, RA, bone spurs that are awful when u see. Last Dr appointment Dr asked where is my dad? Not here why I expected to see a 90+plus yr old sitting here from xrays! Company D 12th MP battalion ft mcclellan Anniston alabama jun-sept.1986 basic and AIT.
- Vincent Caiazzo - Kissimmee, FL - Comment: I Suffer from many many problems ,Too name a few, Disc degeneration for 30 years or so, IBS, Gerd, Sleep Apnea , Asthma, diabetes, High Blood pressure , Knee problems, leg problems a few diseases I care not mention over stereotyping ,blood diseases and much much more
- Mary Youngblood - Panacea, FL - Comment: Osteoarthritis worse case doctor said he has ever seen. All thru my body.Five deteorating disc in my back. Fibromyalgia, chronic bronchitis, vocal cords swollen all the time. Doctors cannot tell me why I get bad bronchitis every two to three months and larynghitis. Stationed at Ft. McClellan for AIT in 1977. Then back for DI Schol Then stationed back their as a DI.
- Joseph Spignardo - Jacksonville, FL
- Peter Lindboe - Lake City, FL
- Cynthia Nayeh - Tampa, FL - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan in 1973, and I am suffering from certain conditions that I feel are related to my service there. We need a medical registry to apply for help, before it is too late
- Michele Miller - Cape Coral, FL - Comment: At Ft. McClellan in 1979 for OSUT as was my 1st husband who we had 2 children, this explains the rare immune disorders they have one with JRA (juvinile rhuem,itoid athritis) and the other ITP (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura) along with my 1st husbands rare cancer that he died from. It also explains a lot of disorders I have going on with myself
- Richard Ball - Daytona, FL - Comment: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, Anhydrosis, chronic pain in every joint. Headaches,teeth falling out. Note that no family history of fibrosis in any form. I.P.F. is a fatal lung disease and transplant is the only help but prognosis is 18/24 months after transplant.
- Steve Brady - Talahassee, FL
- Jen Michele - Keystone Heights, FL
- Arthur Westendorf - Clermont, FL - Comment: Served at FTMC, AL 6/1989 completing Basic Training. Dx ALS 10/2010 at age 39, with no family history. I am still in appeal process with VA for disability benefits.
- Elizabeth Dilts - St. Cloud, FL - Comment: If you have information, please share it with everyone by posting here. Admins can cross post in sister groups. We all have to work together to get the information out there. By sharing the information we find, we strengthen the claims of fellow veterans. Its fine to disagree about things, just do so in a mannerly way so we can all continue to work together.
- Timothy Russell - Lakeland, FL - Comment: Let us stand together lest we fall individually.
- Joseph Willette, Jr. - Punta Gorda, FL - Comment: Originally from Waterbury, CT. I was stationed at Ft. McClellan's 795th MP BN from May 1989 to August 1991. Since 1990 I have had digestive & fatigue issues that continue to this day.
- Brandon Moore - Palm Bay, FL - Comment: September 1979 to December 1979. Colon Cancer diagnosed 2014. Large mass removed from descending colon stage 3
- Chris Conte - St. Augustine, FL
- Lori Duche' - Bradenton, FL
- Thomas Jeremiason, FL - Comment: AT Fort McClellan the following dates: Sept 1978 to Jan 1979 - Basic & AIT Feb 1981 to Apr 1981 - MP Investigation School
- Chris Thurgood - Jacksonville, FL
- Danny Lee Willis - Winter Garden, FL - Comment: Was in Fort McClellan 1969 & have COPD
- John Reddick - Stuart, FL - Comment: August 1989-December 1989 & April 1992
- Jack Lytle - Cape Coral, FL - Comment: Was at McClellan from Jul 98 to Oct 98. No known ailments up to this point, but it did take my dad 40-some years for his AO side effects to take hold of his health. :( This has me worried.
- Mary Ingrassia - Longwood, FL - Comment: I AM a United States Women's Army Corp. Veteran.
When I chose to enlist in the Women's Army Corp. I was a young, vibrant,
energetic and very patriotic individual. The only part of the above statement
that still pertains today is the patriotic part. Years have caused me to age.
However, I have lost my energy and I am a lot less vibrant than I was even a
couple of years ago. I feel as though my life was halted by a 5 ton Army truck.
My life has not changed other than I have lost the fire with which I once
lived. Never before did any of my illnesses cause me to think that it could be
toxic exposure but as I sit and reminisce over my life and the strange
diagnoses that doctors have given me with no family ties to any, I have come to
the conclusion that it and they could only have been caused by my earlier
exposures. What I find totally amazing is that if our government knew of these
toxicities, as some of which I have read prove they did know and did not inform
us then the very government and country that I raised my hand to protect and
defend against enemies foreign and domestic have NOT done the same for me. They
did not seek to protect me, my family and my brothers and sisters. I find that
an atrocity. We need for OUR representatives to protect us now. Through wisdom
and experience I had the foresight to save some information about my ailments
because they were that bizarre. Some of which doctors themselves had told me
they had never seen before. Even many years later when it erupted again the
doctors still had not seen anything like it. How is this possible - UNLESS - it
is something that is shared by only a few - by that I mean - US who were
stationed at Ft. McClellan.
My father passed away from a cancer that lived and thrived in his body for 35 years. Most intelligent people will know what type of cancer this was without even having to say it because this type of cancer takes that long to develop and then there is NO cure. Need I say more? Why do us Veterans have to withstand this kind of silent torture? We need assistance. We need someone to support us as WE stood in support of this country. Do the right thing and damn it do it NOW. With all being said and done, I will continue to fight the fight and bring awareness to ALL my brothers and sisters who may be suffering some silently and others knowing they are dying without knowing the reasoning.
- Terri L. Souder - Port Orange, FL
- Steve Mobley - Leesburg, FL
- Gregory A. Lopez - Palmetto, FL - Comment: Enlisted from Greenfield, IN. BT Co A 2nd BT, 3rd PT. FMC Fall/Win 1980. Now live in FL. Experienced Tachycardia during BT. Rate of 320 beats per minute. Honorably discharged US Army.
- Michele Jancaitis - St. Petersburg, FL - Comment: Went to boot camp and AIT in 1984 to 1985. Have had several polyps removed, cysts in breast area removed. still have screenings done to keep it contained.
- Kenlay D. (Gordy) Crosby - Seminole, FL
- Pat Baxley - Milton, FL
- John Staggers - Port Richey, FL - Comment: I went to basic at FTMC in 1979, was in 111th MP BN, started vomiting blood and was told I possibly had a tumor in my stomach, I was discharged very shortly after diagnosis. I have had 5 back surgeries, multiple GI bleeds, and loosing most of my teeth, and have problems with blood clots in my legs(DVT). Seemed like they couldn't discharge me fast enough with Honorable Discharge. Spent a lot of time in the dirt there.
- William Cheer - Port Saint Lucie, FL - Comment: At FMC for Basic and AIT in 1987.
- Beverly Joyce McCoy - Deland, FL - Comment: I did Basic Trading at Ft McClellan in 1969. I am plagued by health problems to include degenerative disc and bone disease, nerve damage, type 11 diabetes, gout, HBP, psoriasis, and arthritis. I have a low back fusion, Carlyle tunnel release in both hands and am looking at a possible neck fusion
- Linda (Greer) Casey - Largo, FL - Comment: I was stationed here for 8 weeks and I think it suck that the government never informed the men and women who were at this post, I myself have a thyroid and diabetes problem. My son was at this post for 6mo's he just told me of all this, this really sucks
- Ray Gerner - Ft. White, FL - Comment: for many many years I use to tell my family members that they all owed me because I apparently inherited every medical issue from our ancestors. Then one day I noticed that all my family was healthy and the ones that had already pasted had lived long and healthy lives too. Then in 2011 I was forced to close my business do to my many health issues. I have been suffering for many years with a severe heart condition, stomach issues and pain, degenerative joint disease, spinal cord issues and arthritis. These are not my only issues but my most severe and all of which no members of my family suffer from.
- Timothy Werner - Pembroke Pines, FL - Comment: a year after McClellan I had blood clot to mid-cerebral artery leading to right brain strokes was 20 years old.
- Robert E. Parks - South Daytona, FL - Comment: was stationed here for AIT AND Basic training in 97 then went to Fort Dietrick Maryland where within 2 yrs was chaptered out with degenerative joint disease with a measley 10% disability for loosing joints in both knees as well as several of the younger kids in my platoon who were released from duty for different joint related problems I since have battled cancer and am very interested to see if this place is linked I have always felt it was, But with being stationed at the underground pentagon I thought the connection was there as they had told us after being there for over a year not to ingest the water ---whoops too late they got that memo out more than a year late.
- Michael Dubovick - Palm Springs, FL - Comment: Ft Mac 1984-85.8yrs ago- Had strange,rare,bone tumor on rib-desmoplastic fibroma-followed by intercostal nerve injury during surgery-at least now I know the probable cause of the shit storm.The vet admin didn't even have the
- Leonard Birenbaum - Boca Raton, FL - Comment: I am joining this group on behalf of my dad, Leonard Birenbaum. He was stationed at Ft. McClellan in the late 50's and has developed a degenerative neurological disease. He was specifically in the chemical corp at the time. His suffering is real and it saddens me that his plight and others are being virtually swept under the rug.
- Gregg Faust - Pensacola, FL - Comment: Went to BT there in 1985
- Kevin Campbell - Newberry, FL
- Tracy Hobson - Lakeland, FL
- David Roberts - Crawfordville, FL - Comment: I served at Ft. McClellan from January 1986 to June 1986. I was sent to Mannheim Germany after A.I.T. where i was stationed until my E.O.S. date in 1989. I began having sinus problems and unexplained nose bleeds after leaving ft. McClellan. I still have these problems today. My Doc gave me a series of allergy tests and I have no known allergies. Today, I am also being treated for a painful skin condition located on my palms and knuckles which causes my hands to crack, bleed and blister. I am also experiencing nausia several times daily and have been to a specialist to no avail. Also, I recently developed a loud ringing in my ears. I just now found out about Ft. McClellan, I don't know if these conditions are related to ft. McClellan or not but it makes sense now that I have read what other vets have been going through after being assigned at Ft. WcClellan. Thank you.
- James Dukes - Jacksonville, FL - Comment: Ft. McClellan 89-90
- Louis Diaz - Miami Springs, FL - Comment: Fort McClellan MOS 54B Training 1/93-7/93. Had fainting spells that could not be diagnosed by doctors as well as heart issues that may have lead to fainting undiagnosed at this time, doc does not know whats going on. I am generally in good health but worried about undiagnosed failing spells. This started while still in the reserves (2000) and has continued although rarely since then about four more times.
- Karen Ladd - Fernandina Beach, FL - Comment: I was at Ft. Mac in 1973 for WAC basic training. At AIT I developed severe vaginal bleeding for no reason, and also had begun fibromyalgia symptoms as well as chronic sinusitis and horrible headaches. I am now on disability due to chronic migraine with vertigo, and permanent right side nerve damage with chronic sciatica. I also have severe adhesion disease, endometriosis, retroperitoneal fibrosis, constant ringing in my ears, degenerative disc disease, severe osteoarthritis, especially in my hands. I have rosacea, even though I am dark complexioned, my doctor said it was very unusual for dark skinned people to have rosacea. I also have glaucoma. I have an ossified Achilles tendon, and two summers ago had to have rotator cuff surgery when my tendon snapped off the bone, which all the docs thought strange, I was only pulling up my bed covers when it snapped. I had one miscarriage. My daughter has fertility issues, as well as many other gyn problems. I cannot believe the government would abuse veterans in this way. I am very disappointed.
- Tim Osborn - North Lauderdale, FL - Comment: I went to MP School at Ft. McClellan from Dec/1985 to May/1986. I was hospitalized with pneumonia within 2 months. Prior to then I was never sick. A year later in Germany, I was hospitalized with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpurea. Spent 8 months on heavy doses of steroids. I also suffered with acute gastritis & IBS, which continues to a lesser degree now. At only 47, I have been diagnosed with and treated for anxiety disorder with panic attacks, IBS, ED, bad peripheral neuropathy in my feet, Type 2 Diabetes, GERD, Avascular Necrosis (unknown cause), degenerative disc disease, 3 herniated discs, chronic pain, tinnitus, sleep apnea. I was honorably discharged, but skipped my separation physical. Will that affect my ability to file a claim?
- Jim Groce - Tampa, FL - Comment: OSUT at McClellan, MP school and worked various duties there while awaiting to go to Benning for jump school. I have a LOT of the symptoms listed here and no family history of diabetes, liver or kidney issues. Also have 'twitching' episodes along with concentration and confusion at the same time. Other stuff but do not want to go into all of it here. Thanks for the info and my prayers to all the vets who struggle still.
- Porfirio Toro - Brandon, FL - Comment: I was station in 1981. I was in gov. quarters. My oldest Child only had less than year old. Today she suffers from Chrom's for life. I wonder, we drank water from the faucet, ate the fish from the lake on base, there was a community garden site on base and I had a little plot and my family and I spend many hours growing veggies and flower. I have been very sick for years and every time I go for check up it's all fine. I my family and I were contaminated I need to fine out what I need to do. Any respond to this it will be greatly appreciated.
- Norberto Rodriguez - Tampa, FL - Comment: I did my Basic and AIT from oct 1978 to april 1979 and just hear about this tragedy on 6/3/2014 after i lost all my teeth they tell me it was periadantal disease but no one in my family has that and i had perfect teeth before i went to Ft. McClellan i also have a lot of joint pain hip,shoulder, finders,feets and abdomen troubles as well . my MOS was 95B i was attached to HHC53rd inf brg. a proud MP and now to fine out this way about that is horrifying. I would like this Health Registry 411 to please pass so all of us can get checked out to see if these symptoms i have is because of those 6 mos. i was there brushing my teeth and bathing with that water also drinking it and laying in foxholes in the woods during bivouac, also the chemical gas chamber that was nasty. Please help fine our soldiers that was there so they to can get checked out and clear them of this Toxic Tragedy. We All Served Proudly and trained proudly now it is time to serve us proudly.
- John-Michael Koller - Indian Harbour Beach, FL - Comment: Massive heart attack at age 40, by age 42 had to have a heart transplant. Many skin cancer, rash, stomach issues, including unable to digest food, stage 3-4 renal failure. Chronic fatigue, up to 36 ailments. At Fort McClellan summer of 1978 for basic and AIT.
- William H. Lapeer - Holiday, FL - Comment: Again we see the outcome of the "thank you for your service" statement. When it comes to reality these words don't mean anything. Like the AO issue that VA has dropped the ball on and does not know how to address the issue.
- Jackie Rieg - Punta Gorda, FL - Comment: I went to boot camp at ft mc clellan. I now have MS which I find out the va covers it for agent orange. I was completely healthy before MS. I was a reservist and did 17 years and can't get va benefits cause I didn't have 20 years. I think the gov should help all the veterans
- Edward A. Cunningham - Melbourne, FL - Comment: I served with the 11th Military Police Training Battalion Charlie Company from March 1985 through July 1985. Anyone that served with me at Ft. McClellan, please contact me at email: email@example.com.
- Marc Cotter - St. Cloud, FL - Comment: Ft McClellan OSUT Oct 1988-Apri 1989
- Susie Hill - Sarasota, FL - Comment: Would love it if we could have a meet and greet in FL so we could get to know one another. Maybe in Orlando where there are inexpensive hotels?
- Kevin Hobson - Wesley Chapel, FL - Comment: Suffering from Thyroid issues, diabetes, muscular and gastro issues, recurring hernias, Back issues, arthritis in various locations, insomnia....
- Patrick "Sek" Anderson - Tallahasse, FL - Comment: Stationed at FMC from Oct/87 to Oct/89.... Delta Co. 787th MP Bn - Rap Platoon...
- Susie Hill - Sarasota, FL - Comment: Where do I begin? Brain lesions, hearing loss, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, IBS, GERD, Hyper Somnia, Degenerative Disc Disease, memory loss and confusion, neuropathy in arms and legs. Chronic Depression, anxiety and pain. Type 2 Diabetes, Heart disease and bypass at 52. I have lost friends and family members who have written me off as a hypochondriac. I only make a few of the things I say I'll participate in. I am sick and tired and sad and angry. I am on SS disability and the VA garnishes my disability to pay my VA medical bills even tho I wouldn't have them except for volunteering during the Viet Nam war. There is part of my story, I am writing a book. Have a good day.
- Shannon Thompson - Winter Haven, FL
- Christopher Duffee - Tallahassee, FL - Comment: FMC 1988 & 1991. Dugway Proving Grounds 1992
- Deborah Brockway-Martinez - Tampa, FL - Comment: I have been plagued for years with medical problems that I could not explain. Miscarriages, a still born, endometriosis, a very early hysterectomy, as well as problems with hematology blood counts that no doctor can seem to explain. It has always been a mystery to me and I resigned myself to the fact that it was just me. Then the other day I read about Ft. McClellan and things started to click together. It makes me very angry that we were kept in the dark as well as being denied the benefits we deserve. I wanted to add that the one daughter I was lucky enough to have, has had multiple kidney stones and other problems, has had to have her gallbladder removed, multiple ovarian cysts, ADHD and the list continues for both her and I.
- Paul E. Brosam Jr - Hinesville, GA - Comment: MP Basic/AIT Ft. McClellan, AL (E-11) May-Sep 1978.
- Tara Sanchez - Fort Stewart, GA - Comment: Chemical Soldier, 82nd Chem Co. 92-93
- Daniel Thompson - Hinesville, GA
- Name Withheld - Pendergrass, GA - Comment: 15 different Medical Diagnosis. to include MS, degenative disk disease, Arthritis, Bursitis, spinal stenosis, multiple spinal surgeries and many many more diagnosis.
Richard J. Campbell - Ellabell, GA - Comment: I was diagnosed with a "skin condition" since I was at Ft. McClellan in 1992. While on Pelham Range I broke out in blisters and a rash across my hands and later the back of my neck. I am the only one in my family to have Ulcerative Colitis. I have been on many medications over the years but nothing treats any of these disorders. I know for a fact that I was exposed to something with what happened to my skin on the range for sure. I have my medical records from the Ft. McClellan hospital to prove I went there for that disorder
- Kathy Green K. - Cumming, GA - Comment: At Ft McClellan for Basic and AIT in 1969 with Bravo company. Did clerical work in the Chemical School. Was discharged in 1971. Suffer from depression and anxiety and have had high blood pressure for years.
- Louis Pike - Montezuma, GA - Comment: C787 MP 93-94.
- Glenn Haley Quick - Pooler, GA - Comment: I was stationed at FMC in 1967. I have had fibromyalgia for years. I am glad there may be help for me.
- Joy D. Tate Mussehl Hasty - Dalton, GA - Comment: I was at FMC in 1970. I was in Echo company. I have asthma, was diagnosed with osteoporsis in my early 40's, now I'm having some issues with enlarged lymph glands with no diagnosis yet got to go back to the Dr. to get him to do more tests.
- Brandon Stegall - Auburn, GA
- Patrick Sullivan - Cumming, GA
- Michael Daughtery - Brunswick, GA - Comment: Basic training during 1994 was life plighted to UAB and diagnosed with spinal meningitis which no one else had and was unexplained. Have suffered with memory loss, migraine headaches, and joint problems that are worsening as the years go by with no answers as to why by doctors
- Kimberly Wilson - Cataula, GA
- K athleen Light - Brunswick, GA
- Lisa Jo Sarro - Brunswick, GA - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan in 1984 and was chemically exposed so were my kids and grandkids & we need healthcare and monthly compensation
- Michael Manion - Marietta, GA - Comment: 22 years of military service that began at Fort McClellan, AL with Military Police OSUT in 1990. Various medical issues have presented over the years and it is tough to discern which ones can be tied to exposure. However, I know that some of the things I experience are not normal "wear and tear" on the body
- Starr Bisson - Waycross, GA - Comment: I have had struggled with hypothyroidism,
depression, fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, tinnitus, chronic pain, in all
of my body, severe memory loss, female issues for several years until I finally
had an ablation that seemed to correct the issues. There are more, but I
currently cannot recall. I was in training for basic and AIT for 16 weeks at
Ft. McClellan from May 1st, 1984 to August 1984.
I would like to get tested by someone that knows what they are doing, my doctors here are stumped. My quality of life, physically, is always challenged. I'm only 53.
- Yvette Yoshino - Augusta, GA - Comment: Too many probs to list including premature bone loss ranging from tooth loss to osteoarthritis in all joints. I know you have to age but you should not be broken down by 40. Most problems began by 30 and worsened over time. You have to perform your duties regardless of pain, but I feel betrayed because the duty station was the onset culprit.
- Randy L. Doolittle - Loganville, GA - Comment: Premature teeth loss, early-age COPD, early-age liver issues, several auto-immune diseases, psoriasis, unexplained chronic joint pain, digestive tract issues, gall bladder removal, abnormal amount of fatty-tissue tumors. due to toxic exposure at Ft. McClellan, AL and NATO-23 in Feucht, Federal Republic of W. Germany. Infectious exposure to air-gun innoculations .
- Danny McGinnis - Atlanta, GA
- Linda Motes - La Fayette, GA - Comment: Fort McClellan 1980
- Edward P. Sullivan - Hortense, GA
- Millie Eifler - Hartwell, GA
- Dorothy Pauls - Donaldsonville, GA
- Annie West Cummings - Riverdale, GA- Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan in September 1974. I took basic training there and remained there for 3 three years of service in the U.S. Army. After I departed the military, I worked as a civilian employee for 9 years. I suffered a miscarriage, had a hysterectomy while still in service, had problems with my eyes and both of my children were constantly ill during those years. Fort McClellan was a dumping ground for many toxins and I'm sure that the health problems that I am still experiencing are a result of my many years there.
- Tommy Barron, Jr. - Macon, GA - Comment: As a veteran of FMC 1981, HR 411 NEEDS TO PASS!
- Paul Riopel - Fairburn, GA - Comment: MP OSUE at FMC 1996-1997. Healthy as can be my whole life. Athlete growing up and in college and never had major medical issues. WHile on active duty I was diagnosed with hypertension and degenerative disc disease and had back surgery. A year after ETS I was diagnosed as a type II diabetic. Not overweight at all and still in great shape but still a diabetic with hypertension and a plethora of back issues to include neuropathy and nerve damage.
- Matthew Radke - Grovetown, GA - Comment: I was stationed at FMC from March 1994 to July/Aug 1994.
- James Brown - Alpharetta, GA - Comment: Degenerative Spine Disease, skin disease (face, arm & legs). Been tested by VA and no one knows what it is. PTSD and short term memory.
- Ricky Wilkins - Atlanta, GA - Comment: Had basic training at fort McClellan in November of 1979. Starting having medical problems soon after arriving. I have cancer & am in constant pain. The chemotherapy helped but now the pain is worse. I have to take strong pain meds, but I still hurt some after taking medication. I have a rash on my chest and back that itches really bad , I had a cervical bone fusion , degenerative disc disease and many other medical problems
- Steven A. Hicks - Lawrenceville, GA
- Jesse Sinclair - Flowery Branch, GA - Comment: D12 4th Plt. Apr-Jul84 FMC
- Sylvia Kirkland - White, GA
- Blanche Castle - Atlanta, GA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan as a WAC going thru basic training and AIT in Feb 1967 to July 1967. Diagnosed with chronic fatigue, type 2 diabetes, back and hip issues, and stomach issues. I am sure some is related to being at Ft McCellan. But many of you suffer more than I do. My prayers go out to you all
- Willie B. Bennett - Hinesville, GA
- Carol Shouse - Martinez, GA
- Richard K. Harned - McDonough, GA
- Connie Moore - Augusta, GA
- Raunie Adair - Grovetown, GA
- R.E.H. - Cornelia, GA - Comment: I was mostly healthy my entire life. went into law enforcement out of service drug task force, 5 years on S.W.A.T. eventually moving up the ranks making chief . Instructed at the academy for over 10 years. BUT bout 10 years ago it was like a warranty running out on a car. every year for 3 years I would have double pneumonia sometimes twice a year. I found out while trying to have children that I had a ridiculously low sperm count (thank GOD the LORD blessed me with 2 kids being conceived eventually) Now in the last 5 years my teeth have became brittle, I've had over 14 broken bones including 2 weeks ago I broke my collar bone and didn't know it till I went to the doctor for arm pain. now my left hand is pretty much worthless. In the last 3 years I've had both knees replaced, acute kidney failure (was in I.C.U. for 5 days) I have nerve ending burning and I could go on and on. Including sleep walking and my memory is crap. You know overseas I expected the (bad guys) to do stuff but my own government are you kidding me. Somebody has got to be accountable
- Debra S. Giddens - Augusta, GA - Comment: I was a Women's Army Corps (WAC) Soldier assigned to FMC in 1974. I have had breast cancer and developed fibromyaglia and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Thank you for looking out for veterans! I have multiple health issues included
autoimmune thyroiditis, breast cancer at age 37, ovarian tumors resulting in
total hysterectomy, degenerative disc disease and arthritis all over the body,
multiple allergies...these are the big issues but have several other issues as
well... is there a registry built yet? if there is where do I go to put myself
on it....if the registry must wait for the bill to be passed how will we
veterans be notified to register?
Thank you for the support.
- Steve K. Bramlett - Woodstock, GA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan in 1984 for basic training and AIT in the chemical school!
- Joni McColley - Lawrenceville, GA - Comment: Ft McClellan 8/76 to 10/76. Started having health issues in basic and continue to progressively get worse as the days/years go by. We need HR 411.
- Dawn Peace - Temple, GA - Comment: FTMC 95-98 Basic, AIT, BIDS Schools, 82 Chem Company, 30th Chem Company
- Diana Carlson Strickland - White Oak, GA - Comment: I just recently found out about Toxic Ft McClellan. I was at Ft McClellan for Basic Training in 1978 and I too suffer from a number of illnesses. Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Female problems, Ringing in the ears, Gastrointestinal, I.B.S., just to name a few. Have had a few surgeries to add to the list.
- Kelly Barrs - Thomasville, GA - Comment: 3 different types of cancer unrelated, bilateral mastectomy, hysterectomy, Cysts (1 in head, 4 in stomach (all have hyper dysphasia) gallbladder removal, neck fusion, disc degeneration, both knees had to have surgery (miniscus erosion) CRPS, Emphysema, chronic lung infections, borderline diabetic.
- Ralph Barrs - Thomas Lake, GA - Comment: Type 2 diabetes, inoperable heart disease, neuropathy, retinopathy.... Went into basic with no health issues, left FMC with diabetes.
- Clarinda S. McNair - Vidalia, GA - Comment: I was there Oct. 78 through Dec. 78 I have had back and neck surgery. Total hysterectomy within 10 yrs.of leaving Ft. Mac. I have Epstein Barr,I have fibromalgia, I have Chronic gastritis,hypothyroid, arthritis in my feet, ankles, hips and hands
- Judy Ochterbeck Davenport - Marietta, GA - Comment: rash on neck, yr round allergies, full hysterectomy, and have no idea if any of this is mac related. New to all the info and even newer and more clueless as to how to get tested or contact any VA for claims or what have you. =) Love to all you fellow Maccers
- Debi Irby - Haiku, HI - Comment: I was stationed at FMC for basic training in 1980. Have had numerous medical issues.
- Mark Lapinskas - Kendrick, ID
- David Cross - Nampa, ID
- Pete Spagnolo - Emmett, ID - Comment: I served as a DI at McClellan from June 85 to July 87. After my time at McClellan, I attended Special Forces training and finished my career in 5th Special Forces Group (A). I suffer from a number of ailments, VA has rated me at 60% but have made no connection to my service at McClellan.
- Arthur C. Bly II - Belvidere, IL - Comment: I have never felt good since serving. I have had multiple and continuing problems with nerve pain, headaches, dizziness, confusion etc etc that has gotten worse every year to the point where I am now. Unable to work, think, act, sleep, remember, and many other things. Every doctor says, you have nerve damage and problems with your brain having the capacity to decipher touch from pain, but we do not know why. every drug in the book has been tried, nothing works, as for pain, how do you rid yourself of pain when it is your brain that is to blame? We need help! as sorry as I am, I may be one of the fortunate ones!
- Rick Vanderhoef - Beach Park, IL
- PATRICIA KEEFE-MIYAJI - Newark, IL - Comment: I WAS STATIONED AT FT. MCCLELLAN, AL IN SUMMER OF 1967 TIL EARLY FALL OF 67 AND THEN WENT ON TO VIETNAM WGERE I WAS EXPOSED TO AO, SO IT IS HARD FOR ME TO DICERN BETWEEN WHETHER WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME IS FROM EITHER VIETNAM OR FT. MAC, BUT I SUFFER FROM UPPER AND LOWER NEUROPATHY, TYPE TWO DIABETES, CATARACTS AND STROKES, ALONG WITH THE INABILITY TO REMEMBER ANYTHING FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES AND I HAVE HAD BREAST CANCER TWO TIMES SINCE THE YEAR 2000, I HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING AND SLUR MY WORDS SOMETIMES, I ALSO HAVE ERUPTIONS ON MY BODY THAT OOZE THE UGLIEST BLOODIEST, GREEN GOO, YOU MAY EVER SEE AND CAN LAST AS LONG AS TWO OR THREE WEEKS BEFORE IT STOPS OOZING, I AM ALWAYS IN PAIN, FROM MY HEAD TO MY TOES AND HAVE HAD BLADDER PROBLEMS AND THIS IS JUST THE SHORT LIST, LOL, KUI.
- Brian Singleton - East St. Louis, IL - Comment: Basic training 1978 also helped clean up areas on the range and NBC areas.Skin itches uncontrollably.
- Brian Farlin - Pekin, IL
- Leo Didier - Chicago, IL
- Bryan Baca - Macomb, IL - Comment: Degenerative joints. 3 knee surgeries and 1 shoulder surgery. Also have a skin condition that affects feet and hands. They just blister up at times.
- Patrick Waltz - Vandalia, IL - Comment: April 89 to August of 89 Charlie 787
- Katherine A. Bargiel - Godfrey, IL - Comment: took basic at FMC Oct 84 to Jan 85
- Grayson (David) Weisbacker, Jr. - Hanover Park, IL - Comment: Orginally from Gardiner, Maine. Stationed at Ft McClellan from 1981-1983. Main issues are: had colon removed due to cancer, surgery on both knees and about 4 times wrong with my back which has bothered me since 1984. I also passed a mutated gene for colon cancer onto my 17 and 20 year old sons. Don't know if this is just part of getting old or what. 55 now and in the process of still recoving from the cancer and being treated in the back issues.
- Michael Taylor - Chicago, IL - Comment: I attended Ft. McClellan for 5 months in 1986 for Basic and A.I,T. Military Police. I currently have and have been struggling with a degenerative bulging disks. I also have Ulcerative Colitis which is a very painful and uncomfortable debilitative medical problem. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help !
- Bernard Incarnato - Decatur, IL - Comment: Did Basic and AIT there as a 54B. Part of a
Smoke Generator Reserve Unit here in Illinois that later transitioned to a
Decon Unit. Lots of 54B here in the state that trained at Ft. McClellan as my
unit was part of a Chemical Battalion here in the state.
- Johnney Abbott - Rulton, IL - Comment: Headaches, nausea, dizziness, confusion. No VA or other government or state help.What has this country come to?
- Jennifer Saunders Oesterle - Morris, IL - Comment: I served at Ft. McClellan from 1987 to 1989. I have been diagnosed with a demyelinating disease (basically MS, just not enough criteria to firmly diangose MS). I have also been diagnosed with Lupus, migraines, neuropathy, and many central nervous system issues. This is the first time I have heard anything about problems at McClellan, but often wondered if that my have been the culprit as it was also used for chemical training.
- Allen R. Smock - Polos Hills, IL
- Robyn Medder - Minooka, IL - Comment: I was turned down for VA Benefits brain cancer due to chemicals at Ft Mc Cellan. The military feels I did not have symptoms early enough after I left the military. Based on my cancer Grade 2 astrocutma you can have it or years before a diagnosis. I was diagnosised because of a sinus scan. I fought headaches for yrs.
- Ron & Lynn Damm - Peoria, IL - Comment: I put my husband's name on this even though he is deceased. He was the one in the service.
- Esther Barnslater - Calumet, IL - Comment: Hi,4 yrs ago docs thought brain tumors,autoimmune disease.Now,a rare disease.I'am almost totally disabled.Doctors are puzzled.The lesions/tumors are going from brain ,arm pit,abdomen,groin area ,ect.Also denied disability benefits
- J.P. Kruchten - Greenup, IL
- Jerald H. Schier - Manito, IL - Comment: Was stationed at Fort McClellan from 1989 to 1990. Was assigned to the Military Police School Regimental Aggressor Platoon. Spent a lot of time in the woods at Pelham Range.
- Steven Johnson - Chicago, IL - Comment: Stationed at Ft.McClellan Alabama in 1977 since then I have degenerative arthritis of the spine acute sinusitis constant ringing in my ears(tinnitus) been diagnosed with Meningitis,pneumonia swelling of the lymph nodes,photophobia(sensitivity to bright lights) kidney infections,urinary tract infections,blurred vision,migraine headaches and chronic fatigue and occasional loss of balance and appetite and loss of muscle in right arm.
- Chris L. Streeter - South Elgin, IL
- Grace Buckley - Chicago, IL - Comment: 2 miscarriages & years of unexplained illnesses. I was stationed at FMC, AL as an army MP in 1981-92.
- John Harms - Chicago, IL - Comment: At Ft. McClellan in the spring of 1976. Diabetes, no family history, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis, degenerative joint disease, hip replacement at 49, restless leg syndrome, peripheral artery disease, adrenal gland tumor, lung nodule, colon and stomach polyps.
- William Morrow - Romeoville, IL
- Jeffrey Sizemore - Decatur, IL
- Patricia Canibano Wilken - Elwood, IL - Comment: Stationed at FMC from Jan 66 to Apr 66
- Matt Ashman - Machesney Park, IL
- Heather A. Miller - North Riverside, IL
- Carl Humphries - Decatur, IL
- Barb Wilson - Riverton, IL
- Rob Kurns - Joliet, IL - Comment: Served at FMC in the early 90's. Since have developed some rare medical conditions. Not only have I developed these, my children have as well.
- GE Buckley aka NRWC Germanicus - Chicago, IL - Comment: PTST, other strange unknown ailments, 2 miscarriages, rashes.
- Patricia White/Clinton - Jacksonville, IL - Comment: Stationed Fort McClellan Sept 1st, 1977. 6.8 weeks BT Hysterectomy, Leg & Joint Pain, Painful tumors all over my body and in my breasts, vision poor for unknown reasons, and still denying anything that pertains to FMC.
- Esther Barnslater - Calumet, IL
- Chris McDonald - Smithton, IL - Comment: Joint pain, bad back, bad hip and no injuries to those area.
- Ronald F. Davis - Rock Island, IL - Comment: Served many years in Korea, Germany and here in the States. FMC in 82. Have diabetes, heart problems, and many more.
- William Buchanan - Palatine, IL - Comment: I was a student and later served as an
instructor in the Operations & Training Division at the U.S. Army Chemical
Center & School in Fort McClellan, Alabama. This was from 1969 to 1971.
During that time we were routinely exposed to a toxic soup of various agents and chemicals.
The result has been a gastrointestinal track that is a mess. (Note: I am the only one in the family with these ailments… it is not genetic.) In less than 10 years after military service I developed Ulcerative Colitis and/or Crones Disease. (The doctors have had a hard time nailing it down as it sometimes presents as either one or both.)
Later, my gallbladder died for no apparent reason the doctors can point to. The necrotic tissue spread to the bile duct which required removal of most of the bile duct as well as the gallbladder. This resection led to scar tissue closing off the duct, leading to liver infection and septic shock. A whole series of surgeries followed.
Additionally, Barrettes Syndrome developed which has led to esophageal ablations, which led to strictures and subsequent dilations.
Bottom line: while my cardio and strength is good, my gastrointestinal track is a message which I have come to learn is common among those of us that served at Ft McClellan.
While serving at Fort McClellan, my toxic exposures included:
• Toxic Agent Yard, Mixed (Guard duty). Agents included nerve gases (VX, GB), an hallucinogenic (BZ), mustard gas, and vomiting agents (DM). For example, one time when all the pigeons outside the toxic agent bunker doors were dead, the Sergeant of the Guard said to ignore it, "it was probably the cold snap last night that killed them.†Being young and stupid we believed it, but who knows? A low level leak could very well have taken place.
• High Levels of Radiation ("Field Survey Classâ€). We gave a class in a field containing 1,000 cobalt 60 radiation sources. Exposure levels for myself as an instructor were up to 30 RADs per hour, which is substantial as X-Rays are measured in milli-RADs.
• Agent Orange ("Defoliation†classes).
• Mustard Gas ("Decontamination Confidence Classâ€). Mustard agent was applied to two locations on the arm and we were allowed to decontaminate one of them. This class was later forbidden to be done to students.
• CS "Tear Gas†(Used to simulate toxic agents. I got gassed on nearly a weekly basis.)
• PCB's from Monsanto which dumped toxins in the Ft. McClellan area.
Of course, with all that going on at Ft McClellan, our esteemed leaders in Washington don't feel the need to do anything about it. It's almost as if they think we deserve our problems for being dumb enough to serve.
- Billy McCombs - Sullivan, IN - Comment: I have had several medical problems that I feel may be attributed to exposure at Ft McClellan. I have Fibromylagia, Diabetes, nerve issues, blistering and scaring to my hands & fingers, feet & toes, migraine headaches, memory loss, trouble with concentration, and allergic reactions to my own sweat just to name a few things. I get conflicting diagnosis from different doctors, and have been turned down for VA compensation. I am sure that most of these problems could be the after effect of being exposed to volatile chemicals at Ft McClellan. I do not qualify for VA benefits according to the VA because I was not active duty for more than 180 days because I was National Guard. I just found out about this page and the fact that I have been exposed to chemicals that I knew nothing about and it infuriates me very much!!! I show signs of some of the same medical problems that my father, a Vietnam Veteran exposed at least 2 times documented (Agent Orange) shows due to his exposure. If there is anyone you can recommend me to that could help me with fighting the VA for benefits and compensation, i would greatly appreciate it!!
- Rick Gill - Laurel, IN - Comment: Went through Military Police School 1978 and now have disk degeneration in my back and arthritics & also have prolong case of pancrititis.
- Jeremy Hickman - Greenwood, IN - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan in 1990 since then I have had an array of medical issues. Loss of most of my teeth starting in my early 20s, abdominal pain that drops me to the floor, joint pain, depression, anxiety and panic disorder, vomiting almost daily, PAIN that just won't go away. this has been a fight for 20 years and just now finding out why. Doctors couldn't explain it. So this is how our government treats those who serve?
- Steven R. Cooper - Portage, IN - Comment: FMC destroyed my life.
- Michael Peake - Indianapolis, IN - Comment: I went through basic/AIT Sep. 88 (D795th) & (E795th). Also, Domestic Violence School in Jul. 97. Extreme chronic fatigue/Sleep Apnea, would fall asleep while driving patrol vechicle, Diabetes Type 2, skin disorder (face, arms & legs), chronic neuropathy, degenerative disc and joint disease, kidney stones, memory loss, PTSD, Take medication for digestive problems. Im Service Connected disabled Veteran
- Jeffrey Lynn Randolph - Indianapolis, IN - Comment: everything is still reviewed by the VA or Indianapolis hospital
- Troy Hartnagel - Middletown, IN - Comment: FMC Military Police School Nov 82-Apr 83. Unexplainable skin and nerve disorders, spondylitis. Does anyone else have unexplained illnesses?
- Cheryl (Ratzburg) Scoggan - Nineveh, IN
- Deana Barrus - Bunker Hill, IN - Comment: Please get INVOLVED!!!!!
- Ed Hayden - Greenfield, IN
- Laura Oldis Reagan - Westfield, IN - Comment: I am currently in the long process of moving from Jacksonville, AL back home (almost) to Westfield, IN. I grew up in Carmel, IN which is 2 seconds away from Westfield. Yes, I have been affected by all the chemicals. No, I am not willing to fully accept it. But I am trying to take it all in, although there are days when every new piece of info is completely and totally overwhelming and I just have to not visit these groups (nothing personal with anyone, just me) for a few days. It's sort of like when you're a kid, watching a really scary movie for the very first time, and parts of it make you hide under the blankets until the music changes. Thanks for adding me to this group!!!
- Deborah Cloud - New Albany, IN - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan in 1970 from May to September for basic and AIT. I just discovered the news about toxic Fort McClellan. I have suffered from Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome for years. I have had unexplained rashes, had to have my gall bladder removed and suffer numerous problems with my colon, including colitis and diverticulitis. I had to have a complete hysterectomy at the age of 34 and was never able to have children even after numerous medical treatments. I had to have cataracts removed at the age of 51. No one in my family had ever had cataracts. I developed oral lichen planus in my mouth several years ago which is an autoimmune problem that doctors have no explanation for the causes.
- Chauncey Robbins - Pendleton, IN- Comment: I was at Fort McClellan for Ait (Tigerland) in 1967,climbing/crawling in the woods/spider holes.since, I have been diegnosed with degenerative lumber disc disease (2rods/6 pins in lower back/spinal stimulator to control pain). Lesion removed from eyes,Malignant Melanoma 4th stage/left lymph nodes/salivary glands removed, Arthritis,joint pain,Kidney stones,heart attack and informality in gallblader. I was never told about chemicals used at Fort McClellan until the artical in The American Legion.I filed for Agent Orange but have been denied for 10 years.
- James Parks - Kewanna, IN
- Jay Akers - Jonesboro, IN
- Alan Best - Howe, IN - Comment: Please let this help me and others who are in so much pain and poor health.
- Cathy Denny - Thorntown, IN
- Rich Evans - Scotland, IN
- Darrell Mugrage - Muncie, IN - Comment: I was at FT. McClellan from Oct 86 to Mar. 87 for basic and AIT. I have had joint problems, i sweat excessively and have problems with my stomach. I am 46 and my body feels like i am in my 70's
- Margaret Conlon-Martin - Warsaw, IN - Comment: Chloracne; hysterectomy at age 24; BPD; hyperlipidemia; Prurigo; hypothyroidism; depressive disorder; arthritis; degenerative joint disease; IBS
- Karen Gray - Indianapolis, IN - Comment: I did basic training there in 84 & my health deteriorated from there. I never put 2 & 2 together until my cousin contacted me regarding Ft McClellan. I feel terrible for all of us.
- Donna - Marion, IN - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan for basic training from June to August 1985. It was a very hot time of year, so we drank, drank, drank water, and were sometimes sprayed (drenched) by the water tank trucks to cool us off while "resting" in formation. I have had many health issues since that time, to include degenerative discs, arthritis, multiple joint pain, kidney stone, ovarian cysts, chronic fatigue and most disturbing of all, a history of several miscarriages despite that no other woman among all my relatives has ever had a miscarriage
- William Collier - Westfield, IN - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan for Basic and AIT in 1988 for Military Police. I was returned to Ft. McClellan in 1991/92 as a Garrison M.P. on the base. I have had several kidney stones surgeries for stones too big to pass. I get them every two to three months. I have had several surgeries to the nerves in my neck. I started having nerve damage in basic training where my feet would go numb. I have found myself constantly having something going on in my health. I have a son born with Crohn's disease. I feel that some of these medical problems could be related to the exposure, but who can say, the doctors sure can't. If I was exposed, and these problems are related, what option does the Goverment have but to assist us.
- Kristal Siebert Young - Cedar Lake, IN - Comment: Ft McClellan basic training/AIT August 1984 to December 1984.
- Shannon King - Plymouth, IN - Comment: AIT 98-99. A co 795th.
- Lori Marchand - Fishers, IN
- Sharon Zorbas (Robaczewski) - Hobart, IN
- Susan Schmitz Grimm - Jeffersonville, IN - Comment: Ft Mac during 2005-2006
- Howard Vance Jackson, Sr. - Lapaz, IN - Comment: I have kidney stones,arthritis,high blood presure,thyroid issues,degenerative bones disorder,ed,sllep apneha,insomnia,joint pain,4 surgeries,3 on ankels ,1 on right shoulder,looking at 1 on back,skin disorder,plus more
- James Owens - Shelbyville, IN - Comment: Served Ft. McCellan 1975, MP School. Have degenerated bone disease, diabetes, and prostrate issues, had tumor removed from neck
- David Glawe - Atkins, Iowa
- Ernest Jones - North Liberty, IA - Comment: MP AIT sept 88 to Jan 89. Stationed at Ft Mcclellan from Jan 90 to Sept 92.
- Sally Bale - Grimes, IA
- Corey - Des Moines, IA - Comment: My health has deteriorated since I left Anniston and now I know why.
- Edward Hervey - South English, IA - Comment: I was with a Field Support Company that supported the Chemical School in 1971 to 1972 was an 05B Fm operator. Worked in the radiation range and many other places at Fort McClellan. Have had many problems that Doctors cant come up with answers. .Was in the hospital on post with a blood clot on the lung
- Dean Hennick - Marshalltown, IA - Comment: Military Police School (OSUT) in 1980.
- Jeff Moffitt - Armstrong, IA
- James Hall - Tama, IA - Comment: I accidentally came across this sight about Fort McClellan on the internet . My wife who passed away at 59 on April 28 2014 had many health issues the last 4 years including dementia and various mental evaluation, bi polar, ulcers, liver damage, rashes, lack of appetite, muscle soreness, bone weakness and brain annuerisms . She could hardly walk at the end and wanted to sleep all the time. I know she had basic training in 1973 according to a newspaper clipping I found. I did not know her at that time as we got married in 1984. Although they had theories the doctors could never explain her condition up to the last day when she died of septic shock. I would just like some closure and maybe there is some connection.
- Jeffrey Alan Welder - Boone, IA - Comment: I went through Basic Training At Fort McClellan in 1982. Since Then I Have Suffered Terrible Panic Attacks, Severe Joint Pain, Stomach Problems, Sweat A lot and have a faster than normal heart rate...I have been to several hospitals through the years thinking I was having a heart attack, But released when they found nothing wrong. I am now taking medicine for stomach issues and panic problems...I am 49 and my joints make me feel like I am in my 70's, It takes me awhile to get going in the mornings...I would like some more info on what I can do...I was in the army reserves for 6 years, From 1982 when I went through basic training till 1988 . I have contacted the VA and was told that I am not a vet since I never served full time or during a war.
- Richard Sveum - Monroe, IA - Comment: March-Aug 1986 B-11 95B
- Timothy L. Heater - Davenport, IA - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan for Basic and AIT (Chemical Operations Specialist) in 1989. I suffer from a lot of health issues.
- Arley Hughes - Fort Dodge, IA - Comment: MP OSUT 79-80. Have back and skin issues since I ets'd in 92, also within last year found out I have type 2 diabetes
- Scott Rich - Des Moines, IA - Comment: I was stationed at FMC in 1983 Feb to July. Degenerative bone disease Osteoarthritis chronic pain.
- Michael Nieland - Woodward, IA - Comment: I filed a claim over a year ago for diabetes II
,cancer (CLL which according to the VA website and my Oncologist is directly
related to Agent Orange) and some other injuries. I have been going to the VA
for over 20 years and they have most of my medical records. I hadn't heard
anything but the other day my service officer from Iowa Dept. of Veterans
Affairs, Bob Steben, told me they didn't want to approve my claim because it
would open the door to all Ft. McClellan veterans. Today I got the VA decision
denying my claim because quote "There is no provision under current VA
regulations that would allow service connection for your claimed chronic
lymphocytic leukemia and diabetes II due to exposure to contaminated water at
Ft. McClellan" Unquote.
I was at Ft. McClellan from Sept 1977- Dec 1980 and again in the spring of 1989 for two weeks at the range.
I just found this site. It is amazing how there seems to be more and more information coming out. The article by lawyer Elizabeth Dilts has much information and I wish I had it with my claim
- Angela Caswell - Altoona, IA
- Rod Drummer - Tama, IA
- Gloria Shawler - Marshalltown, IA
- William M. Morgan - Riley, KS
- Maria Thomas - Coffeyville, KS
- Jane Warren - Park City, KS
- Charleen Blanton - Hutchinson, KS
- Ernest L. Neal - Ottawa, KS - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan from 03JUN98 to 02OCT98 assigned to D Co 795 MP. where I completed Basic Training and AIT. I have been suffering from severe joint pain specifically in my knees, elbows, and shoulders. I have had surgeries to correct never damage issues, specifically ulnar neuropathy, I have suffered from severe headaches for years. I also have unexplained random burning pains. And even though I am still relatively young and active, I suffer from chronic fatigue. Please, lets get something done to help all of these poisoned heroes!!! They deserve it!
- Gary Graniewski - Gardner, KS
- Helen Shipley - Salina, KS
- Jessica Hill - Leavenworth, KS
- D. Chriestenson - Iola KS - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan from Jan 73 to
May 73, while in basic training. I have suffered from excruciating pain from
migraines, nerve & muscle pain. I have been diagnosed with Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity, peripheral neuropathy, fibromyalgia, several cancers & just
recently lesions were found in my brain & a mass in my pelvis. I have also
suffered from 2 different types of seizures in recent years & nobody can
find a cause for the seizures. Private physicians don't seem to be in a hurry
to do further tests to find out what the lesions & mass are. In fact, I
asked for copies of my medical tests when doctors refused to help. It was 15
months after a doctor told me I would need surgery & then changed her mind
that I asked for copies of my tests. Imagine my shock when I discovered that
the CT showed a pelvic mass & dilated extra & intrahepatic ducts &
not 1 doctor told me. I had been told that all of my tests were normal. I have
complained to doctors for almost 2 years of pelvic & upper abdominal pain -
yet, nothing is getting done. One radiologist thought the mass was an
"ovary", even though I had a total hysterectomy 27 years ago due to
pre-cancerous lesions, at the age of 31. Yet, not 1 doctor caught even that
simple fact. The 2nd CT, which was done several weeks ago, a doctor told me the
mass hadn't grown. Since I have such a distrust of doctors who lie to me, I
wanted a copy of the CT myself. The radiologist report didn't even mention the mass
& wrote some dribble about how I had "gluteal injection site
granulomas" on 1 side. Yet, when I viewed the CT, I could see these white
spots on both sides. These types of granulomas (if they are granulomas) only
happen when a patient has a known history of injections into the gluteus
maximus. I have only had 1 injection in 20 years. So, I performed my own
research & if the areas are not calcified (which no mention of that in the
report) then the areas could be mistaken for GISG, when it fact, it could be an
overlooked sarcoma. Since, I have a history of multiple cancers, you would have
thought at least 1 of the specialist I have seen, would have thought of that.
Civilian doctors don't know anything about toxic chemicals & how they can
have a lifelong affect on a person's health. I even had a doctor doubt me &
put a ? in my chart when I told her what toxic chemicals I was exposed to -
just while at Ft. McClellan. I guess she thought only men could get exposed to
Agent Orange, Agent Blue & the host of other toxins dumped there.
With so many vets having the same symptoms & diseases, it is really that hard to believe that Ft. McClellan vets have the same illnesses/diseases as vets, who were exposed to Agent Orange in 'Nam?! Camp Lejeune, which is less toxic than McClellan, was finally declared toxic & vets who were stationed there, have been able to get medical care. Why are vets who were stationed at McClellan denied? Has the Govt. not learned anything about toxic chemical exposure & it's effect on a person's health from their studies of asbestos, Agent Orange & the other neurotoxins we were exposed to? We deserve treatment, just like any other vet who was exposed to toxic chemicals. But, will the rest of us have to die before the US Govt. admits the manufacture & dumping of chemicals there. Will they ever admit that there was a cover up & hid the truth from those of us who enlisted/drafted. When I enlisted, I was willing to lay down my life for my country. But not at the hands of a US Govt. who allowed a billion dollar chemical manufacturer to dump their toxic chemicals for 66 years & then both covered up their actions & put the lives of US soldiers (both men & women), family members & civilians at risk! For what? Money? At what price do they place on an American soldiers life?
- Paula Hephner - Salina, KS - Comment: Served in 86 have lost all my teeth, my daughters are 9 years apart. I have had pre-cervical cancer cells twice and had a total hysterectomy. These are just what I know of, getting ready to start testing for other things.
- Charles Eric Allen - Louisville, KY - Comment:
diagnosed in July 2012 at age 42 with ALS. This does not run in my family. At Ft. McClellan Jan 92-May MP training. I want someones ass for this disease.
- Chester E. Cross Jr. - Woollum, Kentucky
- George B. Wilson - Rineyville, KY - Comment: At Ft Mac Jun-Aug '76. B-11 MP for AIT in the old 'H' shaped barracks.
- Chris Chandler - Taylorsville, KY - Comment: Attended Chemical School 1986 for 54E training.
- Minnie Jaynes Baldridge - Paintsville, KY
- Dianna Lee Belford Vignes - Ft Thomas, KY - Comment: I took basic training at Ft McClellan. I also had AIT at Ft McClellan. I have only one child. Had a couple of miscarriages and went through a early menopause at the age of 32. I have deteriorating disc disease. Auto Immune disease, Lupus, Chronic Anemia, Nodules in my Lungs. I have tried so hard to understand why this was all happening to me. I have one daughter had a couple miscarriages and went through early menopause at the very young age of 32. I was always had a chronic anemia. Diagnosed with nodules in my lungs. COPD, Auto Immune disease. Then SLE Lupus the swelling of joints, Lymphoma 4th stage, Inflammatory arthritis, Hypertension, Raynauds Phenomenon. I have the list of everyone I went to basic with and intend to try and locate them all. I will write to the President my congressman and who every it takes to get the help we need. Thank you for the information and the opportunity to help You and Myself>
- Burke Rhoads - Nicholasville, KY - Comment: Unexplainable tumors in body since serving at Ft Mclellan, AL in 1998. No family history whatsoever. 10% from VA at since separation in 2003. Have removed 4-5 marble to golf ball sized tumors.
- Kimberly Sparks - Lexington, KY - Comment: I did my basic training at Ft. McClellan around 88-89. Now I am 43 and disabled because of two auto-immune diseases, MS and fibromyalgia. Not to mention I broke my pelvic bone and was told when it healed, it would probably happen again so I had to be discharged. Thanks! All I wanted was to be in the U.S. Army!
- Rick Seekman - Radcliff, KY - Comment: Basic/AIT Jul-Nov 1977, Drill Sergeant, A-787th, 1986-1989
- Lee Ann Lasher - Eddyville, KY
- Willie Begley - Paris, KY
- Gary Wolter - Mt Sterling, KY
- Donna Smith - Goody, KY
- Steve Jones - Berea, KY - Comment: I served FMC 1969, come home and had Kidney problems then and now heart disease, 3rd stage kidney disease, PAD & since Vietnam Prediaties.
- Mark Brown - Louisville, KY - Comment: Mp school, USMC, nov97-apr98, been throwing up for 13 plus months. VA finds nothing. Joint pain, loss of feeling in extremities, headaches, weight loss, weird skin tags. Conceived twins while stationed there, boy and girl. My daughter died from Williams syndrome when she was 11 months old. This does NOT run in my family. No help from anyone. So tragic!!!
- Janet Sandlin - Lexington, KY - Comment: Completed basic WAC training at Ft. McClellan between Jun 1968 and Auf 1968. Immediatly sent to Ft. Dic, NJ where I was diagnosed with severe UR problems which continue to this day. No history before basic.
- Michael Greenwell - Bardstown, KY - Comment: Stationed at FMC from Sept 98 to Nov 98 for MP training for the marines.
- John Tiller - LaGrange, KY
- Scott Bush - Louisville, KY - Comment: Oct 85 started basic, many problems
- Michael Sears - Lewisburg, KY - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan for MP basic and AIT in 1985 and was stationed at the MP School from 1987 to 1988. I now have lymphoma that is caused by exposure to chemicals. The only ime I was ever exposed to chemicals was when i was at Ft. McClellan
- Kristey (Thomas) Kracium - Winchester, KY - Comment: First surgery for female precancer growth at age 19, many more precancer surgeries, partial hysterectomy age 29, full hysterectomy 33... Many many more health concerns
- Daren Brewer - Richmond, KY - Comment: I was there Feb 1984
- William Coleman - Hopkinsville, KY
- Christopher D. Deville, SR - Ville Platte, LA,
- Dolly Dugdale - Lincoln, LA
- John Fuller - Lafayette, LA - Comment: I many medical issues that doctors could not explain. No family history. I have 1/3 of my heart that does not fire. Can't pass a STRESS TEST. Neurological issues, fibromyalgia, bone structure of someone 20 years my senior. Had one shoulder replaced and now the other needs it. Was diagnosed with depression and committed after returning home from Ft McClellan. And the list goes on and on. So yes, I'd say its time to help those vets that were knowingly put into harms way of those chemicals. Help us needed now. Not when most die off, limiting your liability!
- Joe Holland - West Monroe, LA - Comment: 1st BT Echo COmpany 1985.
- John Hodges - Madisonville, LA
- Susan Chapman (Albright) - Lafayette, LA - Comment: Stationed at FOX from 1977 to 1981. My unit was the reception station.
- Elliott Sanders - Baton Rouge, LA - Comment: Stationed at FMC for 14 weeks Basic/AIT A-10 3rd platoon 3/1978
- Joan Ward - DeRidder, LA - Comment: Grave's Disease- secondary eye problems
Skin Cancer-
Fibromyalgia- total hysterectomy
and who knows, after all the exposure to so many different chemicals and poisons, what might be laying dormant in my body and yet to come? That is a big fear. What else am I going to have to battle in the future? What cancers, syndromes, ????? And to my son. What genes or mutated genes have I passed to him, and what battles might he face in his future???
- Edward R. McGaha - Louisiana - Comment: Rash under right arm for the past 25 years.
- Susan Thomas Eckelson - Hammond, LA
- Lee McCaleb - Zachary, LA - Comment: I am aware of HR 411 and following it closely. I have wrote my congressman for support and informed my VA representative, and doctors. I am also informing every one that I know about this subject that they may inform others. I will always be an advocate.
- Lanette Wilson - Lafayette, LA - Comment: Stationed at FMC for BT March 1978 to May 1978
- Stephanie Joiner Peaster - West Monroe, LA - Comment: My health is horrible. Neuropathy, high blood pressure, bones brittle, etc etc.
- Linda Marange Howell - Bogalusa, LA - Comment: I was in Basic from 9/1969 to 12/1969. I have never been informed about any of this. I now have high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, on and on.
- Bill Mizell - Lafayette, LA - Comment: Have Diabetes, high blood pressure, tinnitus, congestive heart failure, edema and have just recently been diagnosed with ionized thyroid
- Cynthia Palmer - Slidell, LA
- Patricia D. Hankins - Slidell, LA - Comment: My husband and I were both stationed at Ft. McClellan. I have a daughter who has Common Variable Immune Deficiency. The doctor's don't know why this happened. She will never be well and has to get medical treatments every four weeks. Even with medical insurance, our share of the bill was $800 a month. It would have been nice to have had some assistance from the VA.
- Jason Kukal - West Monroe, LA - Comment: Basic in 90 and stationed there 94-96. Have nerve pain in knees and legs.
- Tammy Fuqua - Dry Prong, LA - Comment: I can't remember the months but I was at Fort McClellan in 1989 for basic. I went into basic healthy and before I was 1/2 way thru I started getting sick. Throwing up every time I ate, ran, exercised, or did anything requiring a lot of movement. Everyone thought I just wanted out of basic and kept thinking I was making myself throw up, so they had someone with me 24 and 7. I kept telling the drill sgt. that I loved the Army and did not want out, I just wanted to know what was wrong!!! I never used this to NOT do anything and I DID Proudly graduate basic top of my class. I left basic to go to AIT, I was so sick but the Dr.'s could not find anything wrong with me other than a cyst on one of my ovaries. I took meds to shrink the cyst but still stayed sick. finally about 4 weeks into AIT after having lost 30 lbs. by now, the Dr. tells my mom he is going to remove the cyst to prove to me that nothing is wrong with me and that I just want out of service and am making myself sick, because all the blood test keep coming back neg. and pap smears are all neg. for cancer or anything else. during surgery to remove cyst the dr. found cancer and had to remove one of my ovaries. since then I have had to have a complete hysterectomy due to cancer returning, I also have, fibromyalgia, numbness and tingling in my hands and feet, tooth loss (falling out) not decay, bone loss, restless legs, body tremors, speech problems such as can't say words sometimes (stutter to point of forcing word out), sores on arms and shoulders that I have no idea where they come from and takes forever to heal, migraines, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, (I eat mainly salads) other than shrimp and baked chicken, I eat only veggies. anyway the list goes on but I will stop for now!!! God Bless you all and Thank You for your service!!!!!
- Mary Jane Spasiano - South Portland, ME - Comment: I was looking for a friend who was stationed at Fort McClellan when I was going through Basic Training from September-December 1969, when I came across several listings about Fort McClellan being full of toxic chemicals and how we veterans had been exposed to them while going through Basic Training! I have a list of many medical issues that none of my doctor's over the years had a clue what was causing them! I began chalking them up to getting older, but now I know better! Here they are: pre-cancerous polyps in my colon, severe anemia, hypothyroidism, esophageal reflux, fatty liver disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol/triglycerides, IBS, PTSD, double knee replacements, osteoarthritis in my ankles and feet, diabetes mellitus, neuropathy in my feet, sores on my arms that won't heal very quickly, labyrinthitis and severe vertigo, kidney cancer, major depression, tingling/numbness in both hands, severe pain in both shoulders, degenerative disc disease in my cervical spine, chronic fatigue, migraine headaches, and endometriosis which necessitated a complete hysterectomy at age 37. There you have it! Not a pretty picture! I pray to God that something positive will come out of all this! Thank you.
- Branden Fitzgerald - Hampden, ME - Comment: Ft McClellan June 1986 to Nov 1986. A-11/A-40
- Kenneth Blake - Richmond, ME - Comment: I was there in 88-89, in the 82nd chemical battalion. I also served in iraq taking the nerve agent pills that were abruptly stopped. I have been struggling with numerous ailments since returning home and every doctors visit seems to be something new. The question I am concerned about is the fact I had 5 kids when I got back and what lies aheadbfor them. Has anyone out there had children with emotional or physical issues?
- Dawn Williams - Topsham, ME - Comment: I too blamed age for some of my health issues. Had a massive heart attack at a young age (42). Breast cancer (with no family history), high cholesterol, high blood pressure, arthritis in my spine, constant pain and this is just a few of the illnesses I believe were caused by my exposure.
- Thomas Stenger - Sebago, ME
- Kathy Levesque - Oakland, ME - Comment: Basic training in 1982
- Donna Sinclair - Lewiston, ME - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan for basic in 1973-1974. At 34 I had to have a hysterectomy, at 40 my teeth started falling out. Around the same time my sugar levels started rising, I now have Type II Diabetes. My joints lock up, if I crouch I get stuck, my fingers lock up and I can't move them. My arms and hands go numb. There is no family history of any of this.
- Anthony S. Collins - Waterville, ME - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan, AL in 1979 for
basic training and AIT (95B MP).
Currently, I have over 24 individual diagnoses and/or illnesses, some with no explanation. However, with each year, another excuse(s) are given to the unexplained symptoms.
Many of the issues concern breathing, sweating, nerves (both mentally and physically), headaches, nausea, cramping, loose teeth, fatigue, and many more!
- Fairlee Lisa Albee - Saco, ME - Comment: I have neuropathy and spinal stenosis. There as a dependent from 1988 to 1991. Spouse was a firearms instructor, we had a son that died of SIDS in 1991, an otherwise very healthy baby.
- John Good - Baltimore, MD
- Larry Turner - Lanham, MD - Comment: Was a Ft. McClellan, Al. from 1978-1979 while in basic and AIT
- Shane Brady - North East, MD- Comment: Severe Gerd, vomiting, nausea, joint pain, neck and back pain, joint and muscle stiffness, dizziness, body tremors, and severe twitching.
- Martin Layman - Glen Burnie, MD - Comment: I have a freedom of information request in with EPA about the exposure which I have found was much more than just PCB's!
- William J. Vanmeter - Mount Savage, MA - Comment: Bravo 12 Aug 1985 to Dec 1985
- Zulma M. Clavell Lagares - Silver Spring, MD - Comment: Served at FMC 10/72
- Ray VanMeter - Frederick, MD
- Texann (Poper) Hughes - Lusby, MD - Comment: DX Severe OA for my age specialist said%2C in 2003 DX with an OLD calcified Meningioma (slow growing brain tumor) after a TIA no explanation how I got it. I was in extended basic in 1975 and pregnant at the time before they finally sent me for an MRI when tests failed then they let me go.
- Janice Ziegler Dendler - Glen Burnie, MD
- Kenneth Bero - Belair, MD
- Leo Patrick Ryan, Jr - Westminster, MD - Comment: I was in MP school from 3/78 to 5/78. I was diagnosed with colon cancer at 40. I have diabetes and several nerve problems to name a few.
- Richelle Newman Rodgers - Joppa, MD - Comment: I am a Vietnam-era African-American woman
veteran who has been exposed to Agent Orange as a result of my basic training
at Ft. McClellan, AL starting February 4th 1973 for a period of 8 weeks. I
joined the military to serve my country, get an education, travel and learn a
skill. I progressed rapidly to the rank of a Specialist 5 after a year and a
half and spent all of my military time at 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt,
West Germany. During my first tour of duty in Frankfurt, I experienced very
serious bouts of bronchitis and never knew why. My health history was a mystery
to me until I found out about my exposure to Agent Orange in December 2013 from
a fellow WAC veteran; having undergone a ischemic heart attack in March 2003
and two mini-strokes (TIA's) one in April 2004 and the other in August 2011.
During this period I also had a severe case of undiagnosed depression. Not
understanding why all of this was happening to me. My latest problem has been
severe chest pains in July 2013 when I underwent a heart catherization I was
placed on heart medication but it was diagnosed as being related to my ischemic
heart condition..
I also underwent a hysterectomy in my thirties due to severe fibroid tumors in the 1980's preventing me from having more than one child; that is after undergoing three separate surgeries for total removal of the fibroids. This took place in Harrisburg, PA.
Although, I encountered all of these medical procedures and problems, I had a successful career in the insurance, museum, franchising industries and as an entrepreneur. I decided to write a book in 2012 documenting my life's story which chronicles these health issues and how I adjusted. The book is titled "Forever Growing---A Journey of Trust." This is an inspirational autobiographical piece and documents the health challenges I ensured.
Why am I writing this post? Not to tell you about my medical conditions but to bring to light an impending H.R. Bill 411 (The Ft. McClellan Health Registry Act) which will require the Veterans Administration to notify all of the veterans exposed to Agent Orange from January 1, 1935 to May 1999. This bill is currently being reviewed by a Sub-Committee of Veteran Affairs. It has been there since January 2013 and my fear is that the government will simply let it expire if attention is NOT brought to this impending bill since this is exactly what happened to previous legislation addressing this issue.
You serve your country honorably and later you find out that your own government poisoned you with Agent Orange. I strongly believe our government has a social responsibility to notify the veterans exposed to this deadly chemical. I have contacted my Congressmen and the simple response I get is that it is being reviewed by a Sub-Committee. It's been over a year. This isn't enough considering it has been there since January 2013. We need to expose this issue to the public. It is our country duty for those living and for those who have died not knowing they were affected by Agent Orange
- Leonard Lee - Columbia, MD - Comment: Completed Basic and AIT in 1983 as a 95B, completed 54B BNOC(R), 86, and went back to FMC for ANOC in 96. I have ruptured every major tendon in my left leg, Achilles, Patellar and Upper Hamstring. I was also diagnosed with degenerative spine disease at the ripe old age of 48. To this day I am still receiving shots for bulging disks in my neck and lower back. I also suffer from severs joint pain and I have Bursitis in both hips.
- Frederick R. Morrow III - Worcester, MA - Comment: Jan -May 82 Echo Co
- Marilyn Lawrence Krain - Arlington, MA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan as a WAC going thru basic training. I and my two daughters suffer from fibromyalgia. I have been sick since 1960. I fell all military personnel stationed there have a right to know how toxic it was.
- Carol Knowlton Ward - Ashburnham, MA - Comment: Basic training and AIT clerk typist .at Ft McClellan AUG 1970-Nov1970. After AIT I was sent to Ft Bragg. I joined the army again in Dec 1986-Jul 1989. Basic at Ft Dix, AIT 75B at Ft Benjamin Harrison. Then sent to 3rd Armored Div in Frankfurt, Germany. I only found out about this 2 months ago. I have IBS, divirticulitis, gastroesophageal reflux disorder, fibromyalgia, sjogren's syndrome, osteoarthritis. osteopenia, cervical stenosis, hypothyroidism, tinnitus, unspecified idiopathic perpheral neuropathy, hyperlipidemia, depression, viral eye infection (sight threatening), asthma.
I have had left ovary removed because of cyst
part of left thyroid removed because of cyst.
appendix (it burst)
gallbladder removed loaded with stones.
2 abdominal hernia repaired
I am 40% from my 2nd time in the army for feet and knees.
My VA dr thinks my health problems could be from Ft Mac. He made a notation in my record that "she was at Ft McClellan which was closed due to contamination by Monsanto". New add: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Kidney Disease, Iridocyclitis
- David M. Whitman - Abington, MA - Comment: B. Co. 795 Basic/AIT 1991-1992
- Cheryl Greenhouse - Tyngsboro, MA - Comment: I served during basic training at Ft. McClellan in Nov. of 1976. I'm now 57 yr.s old and have had health problems the past 20 years, 5 knee surgeries- then 2 total knee replacements, stenosis in my spine,chronic pain rheumatoid arthritis in my hands that have disfigured them., and wondered why? now I know !
- Frank Egan - Revere, MA
- Michael Smith - Lynn, MA - Comment: Military Polic Basic Training & AIT, April - July 1994
- Christopher LeBlanc - Fitchburg, MA - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan from August 1984 through November 1984 for Basic & 95 Bravo AIT. At 47 years old I suffer from Chronic Arthritis in both of my shoulders, degenerative disc disease, anxiety as well as un diagnosable stomach issues. It makes it difficult for me to believe at my age that my my issues are not related to my time spent at Ft. McClellan. The are not a lot of jobs I can do now & this is becoming a hardship. How can this not be a service related disability issue?
- Patricia Cost Dechene - Buzzards Bay, MA
- Scott Hersey - Tewksbury, MA - Comment: Double hernia two feet of intestines remove two herniated disc remove diabetes six knee surgeries.
- Todd Staples - Barre, MA - Comment: 1991 B Co 795 MP BN
- Travis R. Vallee - Leominster, MA - Comment: FMC MP School Oct 90-Mar91
- Daniel Calis - Somerset, MA - Comment: 1980 BT Echo 12
- Matthew Scheufele - Carver, MA - Comment: Was at Ft. McClellan in 1989 for Basic and AIT. I was 21 and by 25 I had massive floaters in my eyes, followed by my first Kidney Stone. I am 46 and just passed my 46th kidney stone. Recently diagnosed with fatty liver and high iron counts. Not sure if it's all related or not. many of you suffer more than I do. My prayers go out to you all.
- Gregory Normand - Belchertown, MA - Comment: 71 -75 Ft. MAC. Chemical Corp., 1999-advanced NCEOS. Heart disease, diabetes, Barretts esophagus, Chorns Disease, Meniere Disease, ADD, endocrine issues and depression
- Jennifer Pak (Callari) - Abington, MA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan for basic and AIT (C787) September 97 to February 98
- Nancy Carlson - Bedford, MA - Comment: I was in basic in 74. Two brothers in MP AIT 74 & 79. 8 kids between us to potentially pass along the problems.
- Matthew Callahan - Ayer, MA - Comment: BT and AIT 18 Jan to 18 May 1993. BCO 795th MP Bn.
- Kevin Sargent - Dalton, MA - Comment: Surprise
- Kingsley Adams - Boston, MA - Comment: I've been stationed there in 1994 where I did my OSUT and went back to do a month long school in Fox NBCRS training around 1996. Not sure if this is caused by the toxins but I've been diagnosed with essential tremors in 1998.
- Brian Patrick - Arenac, Michigan - Comment:Together we can make the difference needed to ensure the Washington DC folks know this is serious.
- John Dailey - Grandville, MI
- Robert Charles Szostak, Sr. - Standish, MI - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan from Sept 1980 to Mar 1981. I am 50 years old and I have had a number of related health problems.
- Jeanette Dunigan - Traverse City, MI - Comment: 5 years after leaving Ft. McClellan I got cervical cancer. According to the CDC, cervical cancer in women under 40 (at that time, now under 30) is very rare. I had to have a hysterectomy and could not have any more children (I had one son). Other medical conditions that I have, some starting as soon as a year after leaving Ft. McLellan include adrenal insufficiency, severe psoriasis, asthma, colitis, gastritis, gastroparesis, hypothyroidism, breast tumors, lymph node tumor, chronic kidney disease and the list goes on. No one in my family for the last 5 generations including aunts, uncles, parents, siblings and cousins have ever had psoriasis, asthma, cervical cancer and kidney disease and man others. I have all my medical records going back to 1975 when I was at Ft. McClellan. I'm mad as hell about this.
- Pamela Drew - Sheridan, MI - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan during basic in 1985. I ended my military on a medical discharge due to horrible case of Endometriosis at Ft. Hood, TX. The choice was have a total hysterectomy at age 21 or take a discharge......I took the discharge. I have had GERD for most of my life since serving, had gallbladder removed. I have had several cysts on breasts and a couple in pelvic. In 1995 I had a total hysterectomy. I have had unexplained pains, unexplained cysts and would like more info on this issue. I loved my time at Ft. McClellan, sad to know that the US Government doesnt respect those who served, serve them by letting us know about these problems.
- Allison Newland - Wixom, MI
- Jason Romas - Dearborn Heights, MI
- Greg Faust - Gladstone, MI
- Michael J. Sili - Edwardsburg, MI
- Sharon Kay Sanders - Jackson, MI - Comment: Stationed at Ft McClellan May 71 - Sep 71. Many female problems. I have Chronic lymphoma leukemia CLL. Caused by exposure to toxins
- Steven Tinson - Waterford, MI
- Thomas Taubitz - Hartford, MI
- Brian Young - Adrian, MI - Comment: Chronic pain all over body. Back problems. neck problems, ringing in ears. low testosterone, numbness, burning
- Robert T Grinnell - Jackson, MI
- Private - Dimondale, MI
- Dennis Kent - Kalamazoo, MI - Comment: Was stationed at FMC in 1985 for BT and OJT with the 14th Army Band.
- Dan Harner - Jackson, MI - Comment: I've had digestive issues for a few years now. Waking up vomiting 4-7 days a week and the VA doesn't have a clue what's going on.
- Kari Ann Breece - Saginaw, MI - Comment: Ovarian Cysts, fibromyalgia, thyroid disease, galbladder, just to name a few.
- Maria Reisner - Novi, MI
- Thomas (Tom) M. Cross - Cornstock Park, MI
- Kathleen Willoughby - Port Huron, MI - Comment:The enormity of this superfund is only eclipsed by the number of military and their dependents and it seems their dependents as well. The toxic soup has contents which alter the very DNA of the next generation and their next generation. A collage of maladies that though they mimic signs of aging (i.e., sore knees, hard to walk, hard to breathe, kidney stones and within the subset of victims are women who have lost the ability to bear a child through hysterectomies, oophrectomies, cancer of the cervix and many with lumps and masses in their breasts. The only difference is that these things are happening at about 1 - 4 years out of their time at Ft. McClellan. Then it goes dormant only to show up again in the 40's (based on an average age of 18 - 22 age when in bootcamp) - and the third act of maladies at 50 - 60. When you don't smoke, you don't drink, when you have followed all the rules and lived a life without doing unretractable wrong - what do you do? No one wants to listen, even if you are already 80% disabled and 100% unemployable the punishment for being a disabled bet means that you aren't allowed to know why you are becoming more and more invalid. My 2nd husband went through chemical training school there. Chemicals were spilt on him - he was 29. He has at least 5 different cancers and degenerative disc disease, organ failures - he has been declared dead so many times that even the ER staff wait for him to revive against all odds. Hell of a way to live for the price of VOLUNTEERING for your country - - We were proud, we were young and we were ready to defend our country against "all enimies foreign and domestic" Who would have guessed the the domestic one would be the serivce that we served? I have had a hysterectomy, one ovary removed, a gall balldder filled with metal filings. I have had cancer of the cervix, apendectomy, kidney stones the size of a walnut and I cannot walk for more than 300 ft to the mailbox and back and then I have to lay down because my legs hurt, my knees feel like they are being peeled off by a razor blade and when I try to sleep my legs burn like they are on fire. Now I have 2 swollen legs, edema (which the acupuncturist who I pay to see is working on) which the PA and VA disregard. I have 7 discs in my back that are crumbling and bulging and my neck has 4 discs that are closing in on the bundle of nerves that run through the spine - it means that I can't paint for more than a few seconds, I can't write and try typing with numb digits. Please do something - We will be dead soon enough but shouldn't have to look at that as the only alternative
- Paul Martin - Southgate, MI
- Edward Dyer - Port Huron, MI - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan, AL from Nov. 1993 to March 1994 for MP Basic training & AIT then sent to Johnston Island from March 1994 to March 1995. I am 40 years old and I have had a number of related health problems. Suffer from Degenerative Disc Disorder, Neuropathy, Migraine Headaches, Diabetes, Asthma, and Osteoarthritis, Joint pain, back pain, Joint and muscle stiffness. I have had Back surgery and several Knee Surgeries.
- Joanne Cicchetto - Benton Harbor, MI - Comment: Peripheral neuropathy, diabetes, non-calcified lung nodules, and other issues.
- Kristi Clark - St. Joseph, MI - Comment: Brain Tumor, numbness and tingling in fingers and toes, I live with Constant Vertigo and nausea.
- Maria Elena Almada - Shelby Twp., MI - Comment: Ft. McClellan May-Aug 1984. Hashimotos, Son with cancer, joint pain & digestive issues.
- Bryan Friend - Houghton Lake, MI
- David B. Sams - Hartland, MI
- Bertha Bloodworth - Detroit, MI
- Carol Hautamaki - Bruce Crossing, MI - Comment: Had Basic Training at Ft. McClellan....TY
- Joel Wiard - Muskegon, MI - Comment: Chemical Soldier trained at Fort McClellan, AL in Jan 93 to May 93.
- Roberta - Village of Holly, MI
- Brian Checkowitz - Inkster, MI - Comment: I was stationed & trained at Ft. McClellan several times during the 80's. I have digestive problems (Chrohn's Disease) skin problems and several joint pain & arthritis.
- Kenneth John Preuc - Livonia, MI - Comment: Basic Training at 17yo...now 52! Started having spinal conditions at 20yo. Currently have had two (2) spinal surgeries 1) instrumented fusion of L5S1, 2) instrumented fusion of L12, with sever spinal stenosis of my entire cervical area. Diagnosed with Degenerative Dick Disease. Currently in pain management, meds, steroid shots, radio-frequency ablation, physical therapy, etc. Also suffer from extreme fatigue, essential tremors, and the list goes on! Doctors cannot understand as there is zero history of these complications in my family genetic makeup? I've always tried to eat right, exercise, and maintain a healthy lifestyle, however, I'm held hostage by these insidious physical complications. If Monsanto Co. admitted liability and settled with the people (civilians) of Anniston Al., then why will our Government not protect and/or fight for those who served at that same facility, and exposed to the same toxins that affected so many civilians of Anniston? Furthermore, why has the Government kept this under the rug for so long? VERY ANGRY TO PUT IT LIGHTLY-
- Brian J. Lane - Otisville, MI - Comment: I was stationed there for basic training in 1983. I now have liver cancer. I am in the process of filing a claim with the VA. I did not even realize I was exposed until someone told the base was contaminated. I was just a kid doing basic training there!
- Patricia G. Rozny - Lynn Township, MI - Comment: Basic Training Jan - Mar 1976. Illnesses include Osteoarthritis - bone loss - miscarriages - vision - hearing/tinnitus - dizziness - hysterectomy - pancreatitis - gall bladder - dental loss - knees- hips- back problems. non-cancerous growths. to name some
- Charles J. Petoskey - Traverse City, MI - Comment: While in the Marine Corps, I was stationed at Fort McClellan, AL for a 4 month Criminal Investigations School. My date of graduation was 10/82. I am curious as to why this information does not reference the Marines who also attended? At 40 years old I began with many bouts of flu, pneumonia, type 2 diabetis, heart disease, body aches, headaches and behavioral effects. This in spite of a healthy diet and exercise. I was also stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC which now I realize I have two sources of ingested and airborne toxic exposture. Nice!
- Raymond C. Shamel - Davison, MI - Comment: C40 2nd Platoon Nov 89 to April 90. I have had too many unexplained illnesses to list.
- Marc A. Cotter - Battle Creek, MI - Comment: Ft. McClellan 1989 - 1990 D Co. 40th MP Bn.
Medical - Type 2 Diabetes, Peripheral Neuropathy, Hypertension, Steroid deficiency, Undetermined Cyst's, Tooth loss, depression.
Children's Medical - Minor physical deformities, joint pain, personality disorders.
Grand Children's Medical - Minor deformities, personality disorders, chronic illnesses.
- William Lapeer, Jr. - Ypsilanti, MI - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan for BNOC-R (1986) and ANCOC (1987). We were one of the first Classes to go thru the live agent chamber. They took blood samples before we went in and after when we came out.. I was told I would be notified of the results and still am waiting. My friend Richard Zavicar was also there but went to the Officer course.
- Jim McLeese - Pontiac, MI - Comment: Stationed at FMC in 1982. MP School.
- Carol Stacer - Harbor Beach, MI - Comment: I have IBS, Asthma, RA, Type 2 Diabetes, Thyroid disease, sleep apnea, spinal stenosis
- Robert Brandt - Owosso, MI - Comment: Mental health issues misdiagnosed as bipolar, cysts in sinus cavities misdiagnosed as brain tumor, brain deterioration, tremors, ptsd.
- Bonita Hiller - Jackson, MI - Comment: Open heart, fibro, breathing issues, joint pains, memory and PTSD. Ringing in the ears, circulation problems hands and feet and the list can grow longer. Did my time at FMC in 1979
- Kim Pepin - Escanaba, MI
- Dennis Nieterig - Grand Haven, MI
- Charles Albright - Garden City, MI
- Arlen Dove - Grand Rapids, MI
- Nikcole Morgan - Burr Oak, MI - Comment: Several health issues... more everyday!
- Richard Scheffers - Kalamazoo, MI
- K. Sooy-Willoughby - Port Huron, MI - Comment: I didn't know anything about the toxic problems at Ft. McClellan. I did my basic training there in 1973/74. The red clay that wouldn't come out of clothing - the smell of the tear gas from going through the NBC training. Now - I see others with the same mysterious illness that I have been living with - first something happened in basic - I couldn't move my left leg - couldn't walk on it, I pushed through and graduated but had to be sent back a week or so. I also had kidney stones - there were at least 5 or 6 of us from the same time frame in the hospital waiting for the kidney stones to pass. The next two years brought bleeding heavily and blood clots the size of a Kennedy half dollar - hysterectomy at 24 - cervical problem the next year - they took out the cervix The next year was an ovary and then appendix and gallbladder that had metal filings in it. Dr. in Italy said he had never seen anything like it - a gallbladder filled with metal filings. I had angina a couple months after the gallbladder and appendix - didn't understand how a 25 year old in better than good health could have that happen. Back to stateside and another episode with my left leg and a constant feeling like I had to extend my leg like on an old fashioned rack for prisoners. Nearly every night I would be up and doing stretches over the bed because my legs ached. By the time I left the service in 1992 - I had migraines, several lumps in my breast and under my arm, degenerative disc disease involving 7 discs, my leg went out again and the wonderful VA in Anchorage did everything they could to help me - they had acupuncture available and because they did not have a clinic yet you found a GP in town and he ran all the requests through the VA. I saw someone for triggerpoint therapy, and another place for orthopedic manipulations on my back and 3 years of acupuncture. I could walk after 3 years, but it was the hardest 3 years I thought I would ever have to endure. I DID NOT want to be on pain killers but had to start when the acupuncture program was shut down and the VA had its own clinic. There were MRI's, CT scans, utlrasound and all kinds of tests but nothing was showing. I'm outside of Detroit and have a local clinic that sees us 4 x a year - blood test, temp, BP - but not available when you are sick - everything referred to Detroit. UTI that turned into microscopic blood in the urine - after SIX years of pain and asking for help finally got to see urology. 3 surgeries to remove kidney stones. One was the size of a walnut. The first doctor botched the surgery and the stent was so painful I was screaming for the 4 weeks it had to be in. It was hard on my family to say the least. Then the second doctor "found" that the kidney stone left behind was the size of a walnut - 4 hours later he had pulverized it but behind it was 7 more stones. (I think it was 7 ) - anyway, 3 months later back to get the rest of the stones. Coming out of anesthesia, I had AFFIB - nearly had to have my heart stopped to get it to kick back into normal sinus rhythm. The pain in my legs were (finally x-rayed one leg) diagnosed as osteoarthritus. Nothing can be done about it - pain killers dose up. My knees are the worse - the clinic says nothing they can do - probably just the osteoarthritis . My partner (we've known each other since we were 8) kept telling his PA that his gut was hurting and he had either diahrea or constipation. He was also having a pain on his left side of his chest. He ended up being admitted locally in the ER for C-diff. At that time they found out he had lung cancer. I talked to his PA's assistant and explained the pain and the duress he was under they just swept it aside. I was called in for a chest x-ray - don't know why - but it appears I have COPD as well. One day I stood up and I couldn't breathe - I called, panicked , and was told that I could get an appointment in 2 weeks or go to Detroit (118 miles) and I am supposed to drive myself? All these seemingly random illnesses. I am thankful for the VA - it isn't the best, but it is something - but like a young child who hasn't yet understood that telling the truth and being upfront with people is the honest way to be - there seems to always be a reason why it was not that persons fault on the phone or at the appointment desk - always someone elses fault. I'm tired, I'm 60 and I'm hoping that whatever this is will be the journey to the end. I'm just plain tired (seriously - some days I cannot keep my eyes open - I sleep all day and all night and there is nothing that I've done to be that tired and nothing I can do to stay awake. - Thank you for taking the time to set up this forum. I hope that in the end - the corporations, the congressmen and women and the VA does the right thing. We never faltered when we were called to serve whether it was in peace time or war - we believed we were meeting our responsibility as a free and democratic people to protect this nation and its freedoms we enjoy. What would happen if someday the volunteer service laid down its weapons and left the conflict, the maintenance crews, the ships and sea and said enough? You honor your commitment to your country and you should expect that your country will honor their commitment to you. There are far too many of those in power who are too busy hiding ill gotten goods to do the right thing and point their fingers at others in order to silence their own guilty conscience.
- Paul Kane - Saint Paul, MN - Comment: Stage II Lymphoma, Sarcoidosis, Poymiositis, RA, DDD, DJD, 26 knee surgeries including TKA and 4 revisions, back surgery L5S1, L Orchiectomy (benign)
- Daniel Crow - Mankato, MN - Comment: Asthma, COPD ( never smoked ), Severe Sleep Apnea, Degenerative Disk Disease, Osteoarthritis, Hypogonadism, E.D., Tinnitus, Major Depression, and Anxiety
- Denise Hodnefield - Battle Lake, MN - Comment: My illnesses began soon after leaving Ft. McClellan. I trained there in Sept-Dec 1985. It began with neurological issues soon afterward, beginning with chronic migraine headaches in 1986. Eventually I developed Generalized Dystonia, a neurological movement disorder. I also developed asthma in 1986. Within months of leaving Ft. McClellan I was tested for allergies (while stationed at Ft. Gordon)--and I tested positive for everything they tested me for! That's when my body went 'haywire'. Within months of leaving Ft. McClellan. I did have exposure to high levels of car exhaust while at Ft. Gordon, but now I wonder if the toxicity of Ft. McClellan could have also played a part in how my health deteriorated? I remain very sensitive to chemicals to this day. Hyper-sensitive. I believe in MCS--Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, even though the VA doctors tell me there is no such thing. My MCS also began in 1986, within a few months of leaving Ft. McClellan.
- David Sellman - Palisade, MN - Comment: I was there in 1970 501st Chemical Staff Specialist Course. I have severe pulmonary issues, high blood pressure, tinnitus.
- Deon Foust - Bovey, MN
- Daniel Harrington - Adrian, MN - Comment: Basic and AIT - 54E10 Chemical School 1985
- James A. Morgan - Minneapolis, MN - Comment: Basic Training/AIT March 1978 Ft. McClellan AL
- J Hawthorne Butte - Elk River, MN - Comment: Was at Fort McClellan in 96 for basic training.
- Greg Rowley - Mora, MN
- Greg Shafer - Ramsey, MN - Comment: Chemical School
- Jack Schlaeger - Plymouth, MN - Comment: Ft McClellan Oct to Dec 1975 (MP AIT), Type 2 Diabetes, skin conditions, joint pain, reduced pulmonary function
- Steven B. Hirte - Lakeland, MN
- Ronald Mauro - Fergus Falls, MN - Comment: Thank you, I would like to help in some way!
- Becky Smith - Champlin, MN - Comment: I have been diagnosed with Lupus, Neuropathy, Chronic Fatique, swollen joints, kidney problems just to name a few.
- Stephanie (Richards) Boone - Hastings, MN - Comment: I have service acquired tinnitus and many other medical problems from my military service. My daughter was born with a serious birth defect. Thank you for providing me the information.
- Norma J. Witter (Colhoff) - Janesville, MN - Comment: I went through basic and AIT at Ft. McClellan in 1980, a few years later I had developed asthma, the docs told me it was unusual for a person to get it at my age, I was 24yo. I have had other issues come up over the years, but the doc told me that was part of getting old. I told the doc that getting old should not hurt this bad. I cramp up in the limbs sometimes, I have had back pain issues, and strange migraines which cause vision issues. Over the past 20 years or so I have been developing lumps all over, the VA told me they were nothing to be concerned with, they are in my arms, legs, back and breasts. Well, I am concerned!
- Robert Pieper - West St. Paul, MN - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan the summer of 83 in A-11, and summer of 84 in C-12 for basic and MP School.
- Violet Case - Warroad, MN - Comment: my name was violet gearhart while I was in the military I have to many health issues to name and meds to go with it
- Tina Kivi - Mounds View, MN
- David Wallace - Gulfport, MS - Comment: Basic training F 3/48 87-88
- Russell Vernon - Clinton, MS - Comment: D-40 1987-1988
- Linda Harrison Calvert - Philadelphia, MS - Comment: Basic Training/AIT - 1979. Diagnosed with breast cancer 1999 at age 38. Liver Disease at 52.
- Eunice Buffington - Southaven, MS - Comment: I was stationed at FMC from 93-95. I have arthritis, undetermined autoimmune disease, alopecia, degenerative disk disease, asthma, hypertension, Epstein Barr, and anemia.
- Paul Thomas - Marion, MS - Comment: AIT July-October 1969. Developed small blisters on hands and especially feet post Ft Mc Chronic sinusitis and infections with headaches. Back pains started in mid 70s with sinus surgery in. Mid 90s. Memory problems and anger management
- Carolyn A. Rowland Lloyd - Byhalia, MS - Comment: Basic training November 1972 thru February 1973. I started having migraines and joint pain in January 1973. Even after I got out of the Army it started with other medical problems, I have never been able to hold down a job for longer than 2 and a half year to 3 years. I have been diagnosed with so many different medical problems, I gave up counting at 24. I have now been diagnosed with MS in July 2000. I have applied for service connected disablilty 4 times and have been declined on all of them. If HR 411 does get passed it will be a blessing to me and all the Veterans that were stationed at Toxic Ft McClellan. I will work to get this bill passed as best I can. There is always HOPE.
- Mary Ann Formusa-Gilmour-Lawrence - Carrier, MS - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan from September 9, 1971 to February 1972. I took Basic Training there and also did one of my AIT's there. I am now researching this and I had been told about it about two years ago by another Veteran who had been at Ft Mac also just before me and has been found to have been exposed and is dying.
- Douglas Schonewitz, Jr. - Gulfport, MS - Comment: stationed at FMC in 1993-1994
- Paul T. Bridgewater - Rogerville, Missouri - Comment: In October 2012 I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Esophasgus Cancer that spread into my Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Paracardio area. According to VA Doctor I was in good health and shape for being 43 years old. My profession of being a police officer kept me healthy and active. This was a shock to my family and friends when I was diagnosed with cancer. I have no history of this in my family.
- Michele King - Long Lane, MO
- Tom Worstell - Raymore, MO
- John Stir - Weston, MO - Comment: Had strange illness two years ago. Even had blood sent fro nuclear science diagnosis. Unable to completely confirm.
- Kimberly White - Lawson, MO - Comment: Basic Training at Ft. McClellan 12/ 80-3/81. Graduation day I was admitted to Nobel for what they said was URI. Was able to "try" some blister agent. I was not there for MP or Chemical school, I was EOD, and numerous times taken from training for EOD entry tests, and was all over that base. I have had degenerative disc disease for approx. 30 years now. Skin issues since ETS. I also have a spot on my liver that my doctor is baffled about. Lower extremity numbness as well as my hands. Miscarried my third childs twin. 2 of my 3 children I also believe have been affected
- William E. Teal II - Sikeston, MO - Comment: If you want to know the truth about it anyone that signed on 95B at the 1137th MP battalion before they shut the base down in 1999 should be aware of this. I had no clue until I tried finding what hospital I was sent to from being injured during boot camp in 1997. I have weird stuff happening to me and was trying to file a claim on my boot camp injury and am totally appalled by this news
- Linda W. Bine - Augusta, MO - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. Mac in 1964 for 10 weeks of basic training. I am now 68 yrs. old and have suffered with many ailments like hypothyroidism, diabetes, depression, glaucoma, hypertension, hives and other disorders I care not to discuss here. All my life I tried to live a healthy life style and then I find out I was exposed to all these toxins. I feel like I was sucker punched.
- Bobbie Carter - Doniphan, MO
- Roy Chapman - Moberly, MO - Comment: Went to basic in 1981. Was all over the base. Have been ill since 2004. Have PAD, almost lost my left leg. Had to have a fem fem bypass. Also have a lot of joint issues. A daughter that was born in 1984, 3 years after I was at McClellan has severe thyroid issues!
- James Tingwald - Hollister, MO
- Stephen Snider - Lees Summit, MO - Comment: Since serving at Fort McClellan I developed asthma, then COPD, I have had eight heart attacks, 4 stints, a six-way by-pass, a stroke, diabetes and some other weird thing that makes my hands shake and it hard to walk. I wonder if they knew about the condition of the base while I was there. I drank out of a stream and filled my canteen more than once with run off snow while on the B44. Funny, I worked as a ranger at a scout camp the summer before I went into the service and the survival things I used to teach the boys would have made them sick had they been with us on that base.
- Glenn Brown - Holts Summit, MO - Comment: Born at Ft. Noble Army Hospital at Ft. McClellan in 1975. Lived there for a year. Both parents served and were station at Ft. McClellan. I am a Navy veteran and I have been recently diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. Symptoms still persist. My Father has multiple illness that may be related to being stationed at Ft. McClellan. Any information for myself and parents would be greatly appreciated.
- Nancy Detwiler - Nixa, MO - Comment: Complete hysterectomy at 28, hypothyroid, depression, fragile bones, torn tendons in my heels, clumping platelets. Basic/AIT ft. McClellan, 1982-1983. Hypothyroid, arthritis, platelets clumping when drawn in a normal CBC tube, depression, torn tendons in my ankles requiring surgical repair. And I consider myself lucky in comparison to what others exposed are going through!
- Robin Bower - Excelsior Springs, MO - Comment: Ft. Mac, 6/85 to 9/85. Miscarriages, birth defects, degenerative joints, spinal spondolitis, migraines, rashes, digestive issues, IBS, bladder issues, dental issues...etc! My children have also been affected.
- Kelly Martinsen - Springfield, MO - Comment: : I took basic and MP school July,1987 to November,1987. Have had skin issues, type 2 diabetic and maybe other things to look forward to, It sure is nice that we treat illegals and terrorist better than we do the people you volunteer to put their buts on the line for this country!!!!
- Connie Means - Macks Creek, MO - Comment: I have nerve damage doctors can't diagnose, fibromyalgia, seizure like episodes, muscle and joint pain, breathing issues, chronic muscle pain.
- James Root U.S.M.C - Halfway, MO - Comment: I have had type 2 Diabetes for five or six years with no family history of it I am in good shape I did weigh around 190 to 200 and I am 6 foot tall not over weight at all but over the last year or so I have been losing weight now I am at 160 lbs and I eat all the time and the doc said the weight lose must be from the Diabetes after many many test that I have had done also in dec. I hade surgery done on my neck C-4,C-5,C-6, and C-7 and I have not had any trama to my neck to cause me to have such a surgery after I hade my surgery I friend told me about FT Mac and I since have been looking into all of this stuff and cant help to think maybe just maybe all my health problems at the young age of 38 might just be from all of the crap the Govt. has told us all is safe now what to do and where to start !!!
- Brenda Owen Meadows - Branson, MO - Comment: I was stationed at FMC in 1972. I have diagnosed with multiple myeloma recently, I go to a consultation on Monday, April 28 2014 to get their take on treatment for me.
- Terence McAndrew - Hillsboro, MO - Comment: 2005 became diabetic, 2007 arteries clogged no reason Dr said they clogged in a months time 3 stints, 2008 full diabetic insulin dependent, 2014 tumor grew threw scull front portion of scull replaced. Three Dr two different Hospitals not associated with one another asked me if I were ever exposed to any toxins IE: heavy metals chemicals and so on.
- Robin Bower - Excelsior Springs, MO - Comment: Ft McClellan summer of 85. Too many health issues to mention. Was at FMC just for basic.
- Thomas Grisham - Poplar Bluff, MO - Comment: Lymphoma
- Jeff Cowen - Eminence, MO - Comment: Stationed Aug 1986 thru Dec 1986
- Amanda Baeginear - St Louis, MO
- Carol Frances Reynolds nee (Bruckerhoff) - Perryville, MO - Comment: Was stationed there 67-68 and Vietnam (boots on ground) in 68-69
- Amy S. Licka - Platte City, MO - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan in 1989 for Basic Training. I am now having health issues, as of which I am sure are from being there. Chronic headaches, which sometimes get as bad as migraines, my nails break easily, high blood pressure, get junk in my throat to where I have to try and clear it constantly, then I have a sore throat, this happens periodically. Itchy, thinned out skin to where there are no spots or discolorations, just itches. Teeth are cracking, already have 1 crown, teeth are somewhat stained as well. Also, an MRI sometime last year, 2014, told me that there is Degenerative Osteoarthritis in my back, memory/concentration issues. Recently had right elbow surgery to remove a large bone spur with a very sharp tip (caused my whole arm constant/continuous pain). This is just a few, if there are more, they haven't made themselves known yet.
- Dana "Sam" Robbins - Helena, MT - Comment: A-12 (Aug-Dec 1985) 95B OSUT, 95C (May-Jun 1988) class 7-88, Please contact your respective states Congressional delegation and demand that they co-sponsor and support H.R. 411, I do not believe we currently have a similar bill in the U.S. Senate. I have been contacting my Senators and have asked that they introduce a similar bill.
- Tonia "Petzak" Ladd - Choteau, MT - Comment: Attended basic & AIT at fort McClellan in 1984. In 1985 I had two miscarriages one of which was late term. In 1997 I had a hysterectomy due to precancerous cells. I have degenerative disc disease throughout my back, PTSD, GERD, migraines, the list goes on & on. I along with many friends served my country without question and would do it again in an instant. All I'm asking is for my government to reciprocate. We were poisoned without our knowledge. The military was aware of it. It's time for Uncle Sam to give back. PLEASE!!! Pass this Bill! Take care of those who gave so much to protect your freedom.
- Suzanne Little Hansen - Biddle, MT
- Steve Hansen - Biddle, MT
- Shadera Lorrain - Stevensville, MT
- Kalen Park - Billings, MT - Comment: I attended Basic Training and MP School at Fort McClellan from September 1997 to February 1998.
- Harold H. Copple - Shepherd, MT - Comment: I was there going thru NBC school and a few years ago I was diagnosed with IBS and asthma. Maybe this explains it?
- Diana Danis - Bloomington, NE
- Terry Michael LaBreck - Omaha, NE - Comment: Ft. McClellan Chemical School D company May thru Sept 1982 We had no idea that the post was contaminated. But Congress and the DOD knew before 1982 that there was a problem. and sent me anyway. My test scores were high enough that I qualified for any MOS in the Army. I would have never served had I known you would use me as a test subject. Shame on you people, have you no conscience? Yes, I am sick and been denied disability.
- Gregg L. Hanson - Norfolk, NE
- C. George Wolsleben - Fremont, NE - Comment: FMC for Basic/MP School 1981
- Keith Hauger - Omaha, NE - Comment: I can only stand up about 2 hours a day now and find myself falling down a lot. Our government just doesn't care.
- Patrick R. Lawson - Henderson, NV
- Robert L. Francis - Las Vegas, NV
- Kristen Duarte - Henderson, NV - Comment: C787 from Sep97-Jan98...diagnosed fibromyalgia, have had carbuncles removed...a slew of other health issues, not sure what is related to my time at Ft. McClellan and what is not...but I am the only family member to suffer from them
- Michael Librizzi - Henderson, NV - Comment: McClellan July-October 1978. I have severe joint problems, muscle pain and weakness, heart condition, 2 episodes of DVT's and PE (blood clots in legs and lung), fibromyalgia and central nervous system issues.
- Victor Somoza - Las Vegas, NV - Comment: Chemical soldier at FMC. Many ailments.
- Donna Sherman - Reno, NV - Comment: McClellan 1969, Stomach & digestive problems, nerve pain, emotional distress.
- Erin R. Wertenberger - Carson City, NV - Comment: Ft Mac illnesses: Gastritis, IBS, Lupus like symptoms, cold intolerance, miscarriages and tumors. Ft McClellan Feb to Jun 94 BCT and AIT MP School.
- N.J. Adams - North Las Vegas, NV - Comment: Was at Ft. McClellan In 1977 for MP School.
While at the school, I started to become sick with Throat Issues. When I
arrived at my duty station in Germany, I continued going to sick call when
eventually they choose to remove my tonsils. After that I suffered from
hormonal issues and now have degenerative disc disease, arthritis,
Fibromyalgia, along with a large nodule on my Thyroid. I am concerned about
filing a claim and being rejected until more recognition of this situation is
- Chris Aker - Winnemucca, NV - Comment: I was diagnosed with diabetes 2 weeks ago. At
the time, my doctor asked me if I had been exposed to any chemicals while in
the military, because my having this disease was not logical based upon my
weight, health history, etc. At the time I told him that, as far as I knew, I
was not exposed to anything like that. Coincidentally, yesterday I stumbled
across an article on Facebook regarding the toxicity issue at Fort McClellan,
where I was stationed during basic and AIT during 1985. I am very interested in
becoming involved in this issue, and determining if my military service had
anything to do with this diagnosis.
New Hampshire
- David Fletcher - Henniker, NH - Comment: Diagnosed with HyperParathyroidism in 2009, operated Jan 2012 and one Parathyroid gland with tumor removed. Not malignant fortunately.
- Tim Gray - Raymond, NH
- Bob Bushnell - Epping, NH - Comment: Basic & AIT/MP School March 1981
- Norman J. Fleury - Franklin, NH - Comment: Several issues, numbness in arms, skin peeled off both hands, swelling in hands and thumbs, turned bluish on hand for no reason. Herniated Disk a lot of it started with I hit about 40. @ Ft Mac in '79.
- George F. Doncaster, Jr. - Raymond, NH - Comment: I also have a lot of the same issues as others. Neuropathy in my hands, feet. Back issues, gerd, irregular heartbeat, sinus issues, kidney issues, had tumor removed from my bladder & ringing in my ears.
- Richard Rondeau - Nashua, NH - Comment: Ft McClellan C-12 Jul-Dec 1978. Diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. Bilateral hip replacements.
New Jersey
- John Carvelli - Oaklyn, NJ - Comment: Basic training 1982, I had no idea untill now that there was an issue at Ft McClellan, 2000 I've had a testicular tumor that was cancerous it was removed and had radiation treatments. In 2005 a patuitary tumor that was removed followed by radiation again, In the last 4 years I've had 4 surgeries on my knees and they are still hurting so bad!!! Now I'm having irregular heart rythems that they are looking into. Something I always felt happened to me, because of all these problems that I'm having. Please help, I'm only 49 years old!
- Brenda P. Jennings - Tinton Falls, NJ - Comment: : i served at Ft. Mac during 1980-1983. I am 100 per cent disabled. I have Bechets, IBS and RSD. I also had a miscarriage. Prayers go out to all that are still standing and alive .
- Maureen Brewster - Carteret, NJ
- Ron Parry - Toms RIver, NJ - Comment: I could go on listing all the ailments I have suffered but it's small compared to what I have seen some of my fellow vets have suffered. I was at FMC the last half of 1980
- Michael Kooger - Newton, NJ - Comment: I was at Fort Mac in 1988 for about a month and about a year after leaving I was diagnosed with asthma and have suffered joint and muscle pain, depression, throat problems , chest pains and doctors cant find any problems and im now 44
- David States - Red Bank, NJ - Comment: hi, i was at mcclellan from 79 to april 80, i have been sick for over 20 years , i can go on and on like the others, but my point is with half a leg i would like to take a walk from McClellan to DC with a few people who service at mcclellan along with any children of service people, it would be nice to bring some water from mcclellan to DC for congressman to drink, i have good and bad days still a MP, just started to think about this, so drop me a line it may be hard but it can be done... email@example.com
- Alan Lewis - Swedesboro, NJ
- Norma Jean Swiderski - Edison, NJ - Comment: At FMC in 1970 and 71. Am now totally disabled. This is the first I am hearing of this. Will keep track of other vets and would like to hear from vets in my era at FMC or in my area of NJ
- Penelope M. Clark-Burkey - Franklinville, NJ - Comment: Basic at Fort McClellan 1966.
Infertility, cystic ovaries, thinning skin with eruptions-rash-itching getting progressively worse-had tests, biopsies-still no diagnosis
New Mexico
- Patrick Allis - Alamogordo, NM
- Elizabeth Gentry Charles - Albuquerque, NM - Comment: Two weeks into boot camp, my voice became a whisper. I began to feel extreme fatigue. These were written off as "voice abuse" and boot camp adjustment. I kept going on sick call for exhaustion and was finally diagnosed months later with mononucleosis. My health has never returned, my voice is a trace of what it was (I was a singer with a five octave range) and this exhaustion never went away. Over the years, multiple odd health issues have inexplicably tormented my life, and I am now 100% disabled. Nice reward for my service.
- Barbie Wylie - Las Cruces, NM
- Jodi R. Pyle-VanderSys - Rio Rancho, NM
- Brian Fusco - Sante Fe, NM
- Daniel G. Brooks - Roswell, NM - Comment: MOS 54B, August 1991 - January 1992 Basic/AIT.
- Gary Blair - Albuquerque, NM - Comment: Did my osut mp training at ft Mac. In 88. I have many health issues. Disks. Nerves. Headaches. Skin cancer. Skin issues. Numbness in hands. Severe arthritis. Ect
- Lloyd Bardell - Alburquerque, NM - Comment: Severe diabetes, thyroid disease, neuropathy
- Richard Merrick - Alamogordo, NM - Comment: Insulin Dependent type 2 diabetes, hypothyroid, joint pain throughout body
- Name Withheld - Albuquerque, NM - Comment: I was at Ft. Mac in 1975 and my muscles became very 'stringy'. I had a knee injury. I was told to C & D for two days and given pain meds.
We were constantly being told to drink the water and eat salt to stay hydrated.
I did as told. I consumed huge quantities of water.
When I came back to my home Unit I had to have a radical hysterectomy and had one fibroid tumor that was eight pounds! I was thirty two years old. Thank God I had my children before hand!!
Since that time I have repeated illnesses of major organs, gall bladder, urinary tract infections, and the latest and grandest ( I write with complete disdain!) a multi-nodule goiter that weighed over a pound with a sub sternal mass in 2002!!!! I then was diagnosed in 2005 with diabetes type 2. NO ONE in my family as far back at the 1700's had any of these medical maladies. I put that kindly.
I have had two skin cancers on my face. Each was a different type. Odd.
I recently had cataracts that no doctor could
figure out where they came from....not diabetic cataracts.
This travesty of all us soldiers who would go to the mat for our country are being ignored to the point of shame!!!!
We need to be compensated for our lives being shortened by so many years and all the suffering
New York
- Wayne Galutz - Syracuse, NY - Comment: Stage IV esophageal cancer
- Dawn M. Olweck-Lenz-Bourguignon - Islandia, NY
- Lisa Morgan - Canton, NY
- Bruce Farrow - Rochester, NY - Comment: I have lived in the Metro Atlanta, GA area also until 2011.
- Victoria L. Booser-Rogerd - Clayton, NY
- Name With Held - Amsterdam, NY
- Bob B. - Johnson City, NY
- Tammy Schwartz - Fulton, NY
- John Sechko - Massapequa Park, NY
- Tammy Goodspeed - Hudson Falls, NY - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan in 1978 for basic training and I have a multitude of illnesses that I feel are due to the toxins I was exposed to. The list of ailments started in my early 20's - severe pain in both legs and feet that is hard to exist with :( also if you press on my body anywhere it is painful. I have clonus, hyperreflexia, uretha polyps, sporatic painful bladder and kidneys, bilateral epicondilitis, swollen armpit lymphnode that developed just after basic training and has grown every year. Dry eye syndrome, memory loss, sleeplessness. I have seen every kind of doctor available and they are always confused by my symptoms and not sure how to diagnose me or why I have these symtoms. I just found out about the toxins I have been exposed to and will let my doctor know. It may shed some light on my painful existence.
- Thomas Kaminski - Syracuse, NY - Comment: ¿...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier ¿ a
good soldier ¿ [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his
country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors,
and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.¿
¿ George S. Patton Jr. I was at Fort Mac in 1978-79. I just read about Fort Mac in early 2014 and went to the VA. I explained the Fort Mac to several different staff members and the issues, what did I expect, no one really knew or wanted to accept they knew what the headlines said. They did take me right in, scheduled a physical and now the tests begin. Meeting soon with State and County Veterans Counsel's and moving forward. Newly elected United States Congressman John Katko (D-NY) has read H.R. 411 and like his predecessor he will stand behind the already submitted bill. I have filed a claim for disability with the Veterans Administration relative to Fort McClellan.. email me at: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Donna - Rodman, NY - Comment: I found out about Ft Mac toxic contamination in 2014, and believe it explains a lot. Gynecologic, neurologic and cardiac issues began manifesting within weeks of completing basic at Ft Mac WAC 1973. RA (autoimmune) problems followed several years later. With no family history my medical providers have for years listed the cause as idiopathic. Now I and they want answers.
- Patricia Knecht - Middle Island, NY - Comment: Many miscarries, 1 low weigh live birth. Very early menopause. Garrets, GI issues, lost teeth right after ft mac. Blood disorders, autoimmune , Sclaritis , thyroid severe joint pain
- Iris Diaz - Queens Village, NY - Comment: I was stationed at FMC from 1970. I have diabetes and kidney problems.
- Karen (Ottens) Barody - Fort Edward, NY - Comment: I was at McClellan for basic Nov 75 till feb 76 then I had NO training there right after.
- Brian Tasker - Natural Bridge, NY - Comment: Fort McClellan C10 back in 1984 for Basic and AIT for 95B10 (Military Police). Have thyroid nodules, endocrine disorders, borderline diabetes, osteopenia, asthma, allergies, chronic sinusitis and allergic rhinitis, ischemic heart disease, cardiac syndrome x, hyperlipidemia, digestive problems, plus other stuff I can't remember right now.
- Thomas Fossett - Watertown, NY
- Diana de Avila - Malta, NY - Comment: Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Endometriosis, Keratoconus - fighting chronic autoimmune disease every day. 100% S/C
- Shae Williamson - Fort Drum, NY - Comment: I have a hybrid of Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
- Tim Robinson - Russell, NY - Comment: I went thru Ft Mac in 1983 for Military Police BT & AIT and again for school in 1988 for MPI course. I have chronic headaches and memory loss so far. This Bill for FT MAC Veterans NEEDS to be PASSED INTO LAW ASAP so that they can get VA healthcare they are entitled!!!! ( & service connected compensation too!!!! )
- Steve Michael - Franklinville, NY - Comment: Hypothryoidism, Gerd, Degenerative Disk Disease with 8 ruptured disks, 4 broken vertebra, Peripheral Neuropathy, Rheumatoid Arthritis. In a wheel chair.
- Robert Crissell - Binghamton, NY - Comment: Unexplained intestinal problems with numerous tests with no answers.
- Robin Lee Searles - Auburn, NY - Comment: Stationed at FMC 1978,
- Gary Edie - Buffalo, NY - Comment: I was there 1976-1979-the last 9 months I was stationed 11 ER or troop clinic visits.Heart issues,digestive issues,depression ,Anxiety,degenerative spine,auto immune issues and so on.long with all the Ft .McClellan contaminants ,I lived In Anniston for a year or so.Most of the streams were were poisoned from Monsanto with PCB'S and being a nig fisherman I caught and ate bass and crappies ,I found out 2 years ago and convinced Congressman Collins to sign onto the HR-411 bill as. Co-sponsor.It is a shame this being ignored.I went from being a very good athlete to a very ill soldier in a very short time.I have not felt good or right since 1978.
- John Shagalski - Schenectady, NY - Comment: Basic and MP School 1979 A-11
- John Clancy - Albany, NY - Comment: 16th CBR Chemical- Biological- radiological warfare school Enlisted class April and May 1967.Swelling of fingers and hands. Breathing and chocking problems ever since service. Corkscrewed Esophagus. Internal bleeding. most resent stage 4 Throat Cancer but had to pull all my teeth and remove a peace of my bone before they started Radiation and Chemo.I am all done with my treatments and doing OK.But i am on mostly an all liquid diet for the rest of my life.
- Stephen Hull - Middle Grove, NY - Comment: I must have been exposed to something. I went into the army in great health; champion martial artist, runner and weightlifter. Now I get migraines, can't catch my breath after walking up stairs, and keep having inexplicable tendon and ligament damage occur. Please get me help. I want my life back!
- PRIVATE - Saugerties, NY - Comment: 1979 Basic - Stomach issues, all joints, raynauds, fibromyalgia, and female issues.
- Brenda Pratt - Binghamton, NY
- Michael Ryan - Binghamton, NY - Comment: 95B, Delta 10, 1984 BT & AIT
- Yadhira Gonzalez - Bronx, NY - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan from July 92 to Nov. 92 787D. While stationed there I developed an unexplained allergy type rash on my entire back. I was given benadryl. For the past 21 years I have had a series of unexplained "weird" symptoms and some explained.
I have arthritis of the spine and degeneration of my disks; complex partial seizures; numbness and tingling on my left arm and fingers; repeated episodes of muscle spasm, muscle and eye twitching. I have asthma. I have had recurring bronchitis. I have had pneumonia.
Among the unexplained symptoms are:
Constant diareah for no apparent reason; intense mind numbing radiating pain inside my bones in certain parts of my body. Horrible joint pain (hip, knees and shoulders). Horrible pain on my chest bone. Yet, I am "healthy" when the normal run of the mill blood tests are administered. I have had cysts removed from my ovaries and I have suffered an eptopic pregnanacy/miscarriage.
- Constance Lennon - Fort Johnson, NY - Comment: I suffered from nerve damage right out of the service.... not good.....
- Edward Cosentino - Coram, NY - Comment: Type 2 Diabetes, CAD, High Blood Pressure
- Sue Kaszynski - Canandaigua, NY - Comment: I have IBS, Fibromyalgia, Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder.
- Kimberly Walters - Canandaigua, NY - Comment: Suffers from severe Neuropathy in feet, buttocks and lower legs. Was at FMC for Basic Training, 1986.
- Billie Jo Bender - Cuba, NY
- Michelle Drappo (Lutz) - Theresa, NY - Comment: I went through Military Police training beginning in Feb. 1985. I've had a hard life of illnesses since, most of which are worsening now due to lack of medical insurance. From my heart, joints, bone loss to hysterectomy at age 30 and nervous disorders. I'm one big mess. Thanks for nothing!
- Derek MacTurk - New Hartford, NY - Comment: Was @ FMC in Aug-Dec 1992. I have a 30%
Service-Connected Disability for a Splenectomy (Apr '95). One of my friends had
broke out in a full body reaction after drinking, eating and showering with
that water immediately upon arriving; he came from MT. Now I understand why the
DS's would not let us dig out there on FTX!!!
For Congress and VA: as soon as the VA doctor (Syracuse VA) asked me where I had been...he hardly got past my answer of FMC and was marginally interested in N. Africa!
- William S. Benedict Jr. - Baldwinsville, NY - Comment: 95B BT & AIT. Jul 93 to Nov 93
- Daniel Tom Briggs - Jamestown, NY - Comment: I was there 76-77, now have CIDP - Chronic Inflammatory Demyleating Polyneuropathy
- Carolanne Rosenberg-Labia - Garden City, NY
- Lis Gessel - New City, NY - Comment: At 29 years old I had a mini stroke (TIA), and at 31 years old (2010) I was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer. I do not carry the BRCA gene and that means my cancer is environmental. Based on what I have read about the toxins I was surely exposed to at Ft. McClellan back in 1998, it is logical to believe that is ultimately what caused it.
North Carolina
- Lynne Hannant, Tryon NC
- Douglas Jones , Charlotte, NC
- Name Withheld, Cary NC - Comment: I had my basic training at Toxic McClellan in 1976. I fell several times during basic due to muscle weakness. I was sent to Physical Therapy where I was "told" it was my hamstrings (torn), I was excempt from training on the Obsticle Course due to my "injury". I later had fevers and toncilitis. I complained of my sinus throughout my military time and now have three operations to correct (I still have a small hole inside between my nasal passages). I continue to have muscle fatigue. I have been diagnosed with Hashimoto's (an autoimmune thyroid disease) and noone in my family history has had thyroid problems. I went into menopause early (started late 30s end in 40s).
- Name Withheld, Havelock, NC - Comment: Stationed at Ft McClellan from Jan thru Aug 1989 while attending the USAMPS Military Police Officers Advance Course. Have not been to Iraq or Afghanistan. Combat veteran of Operation Restore Hope, Mogadishu Somalia. Retired Marine LtCol. Diagnosed with Autoimmune Disease of Insulin Resistance/Type II Diabetes, Hypo Gonadism, Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity/Syndrome, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (both hands), Tinnitus, PTSD, Depression, Chronic Pain, Glaucoma, Irritable Bowel.
- Doug Quick - Hamlet, NC - Comment: I was stationed at FT. McClellan for MP School
Basic and AIT from Nov 1984 to Mar 1985, assigned to C. Company, 11th MP Bn.
After graduating AIT at McClellan, I was stationed at FT. Carson, CO assigned
to 4th MP Co. (and later A. Co. MP UASG) 19th MP Bn until my EST in Nov. 1987.
I was very healthy when I joined the Army and for the most part, I remained fairly healthy for several years following my military service. The biggest issues I had following my service involved my failing dental health. I had some dental work while at FT McClellan, fillings and extractions that I can remember. Since then I've been to multiple dentist for many fillings and root canals, only have many extractions from my continued failing health of my teeth. One dentist said my enamel was severely weakened, which continued causing many cavities despite regular dental care. Several years ago, approx. 2005, I stated having severe joint pain, particularly in my knees, ankles, and feet. My joint pain continues severely to this day with no relief. Also in 2009, I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder cancer and I've had multiple surgeries to remove cancerous lesions from my bladder. My health is terrible and I can only imagine will continue to degrade.
- Don Schoux - New Bern, NC - Comment: Basic & AIT, March 1983. I was diagnosed with psoriasis. Nobody in my family has ever had this horrible disease.
- Paula Jackson - Greensboro, NC - Comment: I am NOT a veteran, but a child of a Veteran, that lived at FM twice. The first Time was in the late 60's and the second time was the early 70's. I suffer from SEVERAL ILLNESSES, that are not in my family tree. I have Diabetes and Heart problems, as well as stomach and bowel troubles. My mother has had cancer, my father has had several medical problems, also. My brother has gout. We have all wondered where these things could have come from, and then I saw this site.
- Toby T. Wellborn - Wilkesboro, NC
- C. Keith Horie - Charlotte, NC - Comment: I was at Ft. Mac for MP Basic and AIT (osut) in 1994. Aco 787th. I now suffer from type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea , nerve issues, chronic pain, high blood pressure, degenerative disc disease, migraines, breathing issues, sleeping disorders, my daughter has learning disabilities and my son is epileptic (not one person in my family has ever been epileptic) and was born with ASD (atrial septic disorder), kidney stones ( over 200 passed) and this is just from the top of my head. I have a 60% service connected disability rating from the VA from which I currently receive compensation. I have filed a supplemental claim to which they are still reviewing ( almost 8 months ago). I served a total of 13 years 4 months and 6 days. I do not regret my service for it was the best times of my life and I even enjoyed being deployed to Iraq. Please for the love of God and the ones that voluntarily signed their name in service of this Beautiful Country who signed their "blank check" that answered to the calling, pass legislation so we that served can get the right help and treatment. We all have sacrificed much and all we ask is to be taken care of the way we should be. I thank you in advance and as always Yours in Service.
- Diana Asiala Rahe - Denver, NC
- Kristjan Rahe - Denver, NC
- Alfred Ferguson, Jr. - Morrisville, NC - Comment - Charlie 11 Jan '79 to May '79
- Keith Freeman - Raleigh, NC - Comment: I was station at Ft Mac in 1981 for basic training and MP AIT. I was stationed at Fort Mac again in 1985 for CID school. ETS in 87 with a good conduct discharge. In 1991 I started experiencing chest pains ,loosing my balance, and Congestion heart failure.IN 1994 I had a heart valve replacement because the mistral valve was leaking blood onto my lungs. I have had over 12 TIA's (mini Strokes) I have A-Fib, nerve problems, IBS, sleep apnea, diabetes, bones degeneration disease etc..... I have a lot of problems now retaining information and I make a lot of stupid mistakes (including my spelling) so sorry about that. After watching the Info War video last Sunday night my wife now believe I am the reason she had breast cancer last year, Fibromialgia, Chronic fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Synd. etc...been involved for a while with the groups on Facebook. I really appreciate for all of what everyone is doing and will never be able to thank you enough no matter the income. My case is presently at the VA AGAIN... under a De Novo appeal and perhaps I will hear something before another year goes by. I have been suffering for 20 years and it has cost my family everything. But God is with me now and is giving me the strength to continue this fight. God bless all of ya'll :-) <3
- Amy Herold - Havelock, NC - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan in 1988 for basic and AIT (95B)
- Todd Myers - Statesville, NC - Comment: I just learned about all of this a month or so ago. I have been plagued with joint pain in my knees and my shoulder. I also suffer from back and neck pain. I went to basic at Ft. McClellan summer of 1984.
- Christopher Ketteman - Burlington, NC - Comment: Served in the Army NBC Spec Ops from Apr 1994-Apr 2009. Was stationed at McClellan during the years 1994-1995. Currently have a nerve disorder the doctor says is Berhardt-Roth Syndrome, liver issues, Recently within the past year started having episodes of falling asleep which may be caused by seizures. Currently being checked for possible multiple sclerosis and/or absence seizures.
- William A. Johnson, Jr. - Swan Quarter, NC - Comment: I attended Military Police School in 1979, and was assigned to the Ft. McClellan MP Company as a Patrol Dog Handler, and a Squad Leader from 1984-87. In 1997 I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes which ultimately caused me to medically retire from the Army Reserve. Since then I have had trouble breathing, rashes, brittle bones that have broken (ribs, neck, hip) , I had inflammation in my body causing me to loose my gall bladder, spleen, and also had fluid drained off my heart. After several and seeing a lot of doctors, I diagnosed with sarcoidosis.. This is a disease that I never heard of and it comes and goes without warning. Last summer I had an attack and was in ICU for 10 days. I am on several different medications to manage the symptoms. Also the diabetes has affected my legs and I have had to have my right big toe removed and a subsequent surgery to stop and infection that was related to having diabetes. It is funny that most of my problems I have seen on the website regarding Ft. McClellan. The VA has recognized my diabetes, but the would not recognize the sarcoidosis be cause it was not diagnosed while Is in the military.
- Michael Carucci - Greensboro, NC - Comment: buldging disc, numbness right side of my body, headache(constant) right side, joint pain, dental issues, sleep apnea, insomnia, PTSD, lower back pain, over weight. Thanks Uncle Sam!
- James C. Robinson - Cameron, NC - Comment: One day soon the lies and tricks played on us will come full circle.
- Brandy Hubbard - Pittsboro, NC - Comment: I did Basic training at Fort McClellan in 97 I have had two teeth extracted from my mouth and have more cavities than you can count. I go through moments when I start shaking and feel really sick to my stomach. I have noticed a deterioration in my mental capacity to remember things...even day to day things I normally do...sometimes I have to think on the steps to accomplish them
- Ronald Ailshire - Swansboro, NC - Comment: Basic Training 1983, NBC School 1983, hold over for j5 school at redstone two months worked all over the post....
- David Rogers - Jacksonville, NC - Comment: I am a Retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant, I served 22 years. I was Stationed at Ft. McClellan from Nov 1981 to Feb 1982 for Military Police School. While there, it was a very wet winter. During field operations, we were in water at times up to our knees. I also was at Ft. McCleallan in 1996 for Anti-Terrorism School. For years I have had problems with small sores on my skin. The doctors do not what causes them. They last for about two-three weeks. In Feb 2013, I was found to have Colon Cancer. In March 2013, they removed 18" of Colon to remove the Cancer. I am currently on Chemotherpy.
- Cindy L. Kempkes - Raleigh, NC
- Adams - Cary, NC - Comment: First spinal surgery at 36 years old. Now after another spinal surgery and more fusions and pain I am waiting on my total knee replacement at 52 years old. My body is shot. Lymph nodes in lungs have turned to stone.
- James C. Harris - Black Mountain, NC - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan from Aug 84-Dec. 84 for basic and AIT. I began having migraines in 1990 and still suffer with them. I have had severe joint pain off and on since the early nineties. I have been diagnosed with IB syndrome as well. At the age of 44 I had a total hip replacement due to avascular necrosis of the hip joint. My surgeon said he had never seen someone my age with this condition. I've always thought I had been exposed to something while in the Army but had no idea there were others out there. I would be happy to discuss my issues with anyone if needed
- Hazel Bowman - Kernersville, NC - Comment: I need to get help. FOr years I knew something was wrong with me. I just did not know what it was
- Patricia Juarez - Fayetteville, NC
- Joel Keith Garner - Clayton, NC - Comment: D-787 9/1/1989 to 1/14/1990.
- Susan Scott Phillips - Bessemer City, NC - Comment: Joint problems, back surgery, vision problems. My daughter has learning disabilities, seizures, runs a fever for no reason. I have also went through menopause early.
- Charles Messenger - Fayetteville, NC
- MJ Davis - Concord, NC - Comment: MP Basic & AIT, Co D, 12 Bn, 1984...still in law enforcement about to retire...finally. However, not without medical issues like many others. Sleep apnea, basic health problems, skin discolorations, cyst under the skin, and now essential tremors..like Parkinson's...head tremors. Thanks Ft Mac!!
- Patricia Garnell Allison Brewer - Kannapolis, NC
- Robert Keleman - Winston-Salem, NC - Comment: Home of record was West Virginia when drafted. Infantry AIT at Fort McClellon 1967. Current age 69, with lung and heart problems. One of three children birth defect and one of three grandchildren with genetic birth problem.
- Kelli A. Lee - Hope Mills, NC - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan for basic and AIT in 1994. In 1995 I suffered from Psuedo Tumor Cerebri and nearly went blind from Papilledema caused from it. I underwent two lumbar punctures to relieve the pressure from the spinal fluid and remained on Diamox for years. I have suffered memory loss (long and short term) as well as I now have calcium deposits in my optic nerves that must be monitored to ensure I will not go blind. In 2013 I was diagnosed with thyroid nodules, one of which was 3 cm and pushed my larynx to the left. I under went three different biopsies and and removal of 3/4 of my thyroid on Feb 14, 2013. I have been suffering from both illnesses since and continue to battle to this day.
- David Kuykendall - Canton, NC
- Mitch Ladwig - Hope Mills, NC - Comment: At McClellan may 79 - Aug 79 Basic, BNOC AND ANOC IN MID 80'S. Diagnosed in 93 Sarcoidosis while being treated for a blood clot. Type II diabetes diagnosed 2003. Osteoarthritis 2006. Cardiovascular disease diagnosed during triple by-pass 2013.
- Ellyn Busch - Fayetteville, NC - Comment: I suffer from neuropathy and joint pain
- Lisa Feyen - Wilmington, NC
North Dakota
- Brett Mertz - Bismarck, ND
- Kellie Hoffman - Baldwin, ND
- Pat J. Severson - Dickinson, ND - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan from October 1980 to March 1981. Went through basic training and the Chemical School there. I now have blood taken every two weeks because my liver can not get rid of iron and have had joint issues for the last many years.
- Mike Howes - Bismarck, ND - Comment: was stationed there from March 1986 to August 1986 for MP training. Charlie & Delta 11.
- Bob Martin - Youngstown, OH
- Donald Wood - Cleveland, OH - Comment: I was in AIT for 11B10 between Aug and Nov 1969. I believe the unit was E AIT BDE USAATC IN. Does anyone know this website http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3346783/
- John McBride - Elida, OH
- Gwane Martin - Dayon, OH - Comment: Attended Basic Combat Training. Aug - Oct 1988 B Co 82nd Chemical Battalion.
- Kristin Mohr - Berkey, OH
- Name Withheld - Columbus, OH
- Scott H. Grow - Dayton, OH - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan in 1985. Just last week I learned of the exposure there. Talking to my fellow veterans who were also there I have noticed some similar health issues. Doing what I can to inform others.
- Pamela Clarke Dawson - Clarksburg, OH
- Branden Engle - Toledo, OH
- Bobby Lowers - Barlow, OH
- Benjamin E. Smith - Toledo, OH - Comment: was stationed there in permanent party in 1983, 362 Supply n Service. My twin boys have had lupis since they were 7 years old and daughter hurts daily also. FOr years I have been diagnosed with fibromalgia and about every kind of arthritis there is and also have symptoms of SLS Lupus. I'm a wreck and none of the medicines are helping. It sucks hurting every day....
- James Raynard - Cleveland, OH
- David Westrich - Cincinnati, OH
- Audrey Franklin - Wooster, OH
- Jeremy A. Sharp - Nelsonville, OH
- Steve Mannon - Marion, OH
- James Williams - Cleveland, OH - Comment: B-11, 1980.
- Scott Lacy - Cleveland, OH - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan in 1989-1990 for basic and AIT. I have always been a very fit person and take good care of myself. After basic and the Gulf War, I was stationed in Korea, where I was constantly being monitored for high blood pressure. I was 19-20 years old and held the record for the highest PT score for almost a year. I then began to urinate blood for no reason at all, and for months, no specialist could figure out why. Over the years, I have had severe chest pain, two back surgeries (Degen Disk), joint pain, rashes, and my beautiful teeth are failing one by one, costing me a-lot of money. The depression and memory loss are getting worse each year. I just accepted this as normal until I began to read the thousands of other issues other soldiers are having. I now have THREE letters from the Govt informing me of being exposed three separate times. It was just about a month ago I was informed of Fort McClellan.
- EM Ginger MacCutcheon - Independence, OH
- Laurence M. Myers - Canton, OH - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan 1983-1984 95B Military
Police training.
1. My first child died at 5 weeks. Crib death, no known cause.
2. My third child was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), no known cause.
3. My fourth child died at 2 days of age in my arms due to my wives placenta abruption, no known cause.
For thirty years I have thought that I must be the unluckiest man a live.
This problem must be looked into!
- Kathleen M. Wainwright - Euclid, OH - Comment: Did basic training at FMC Aug to Nov 79. Migraines, Degenerative Disc Disease, Severe Joint Pain, Extremely high blood pressure and cholesterol levels, gastrointestinal issues, depression and anxiety.
- Sarah (Stover) Crouch - Columbus, OH - Comment: Trained at FMC Apr 82 to Aug 82
- Carolyn Arnold - Lancaster, OH - Comment: Stationed at Ft McClellan 1971. Arthritis & respiratory problems started in my 30's. My son was born with a serious birth defect. I have had so many health problems my medical records folder is like a book it is so thick
- Roger Haas - Canton, OH - Comment: I have several medical problems that I feel are currently being properly diagnosed / treated because they are not being connected to my exposures at Ft McClellan
- Jeffrey Hood - Toledo, OH - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan for basic
training in 1991 for five months. Since my time at Ft. McClellan I have had
testicular cancer in 2001, a non-cancer mass taken out of my right lung in
2004. I have now been diagnosed with lung cancer in my left lung (2015). I am
the only person in my family history to have been diagnosed with cancer, not
just once, but twice. I have never smoked and not counting the cancer, I am in
shape and healthy. After reading all the information about Ft. McClellan, I
truly believe that the two cancers¿ I have been diagnosed with is a direct
result of my time at Ft. McClellan.
- Noretta Moxley, Cincinnati, OH
- Anne M. (Krumm) Stenger - Batavia, OH - Comment: was at Fort McClellan July 1988 to Nov 1988 and then again for 2 weeks in the summer of 1993.
- Rich Taylor - Mentor, OH
- Joanna Ferst Hampton - Urbana, OH - Comment: I pray we get the help we all deserve, we have already lost some who started fighting for our rights, now we fight for the ones who lost to the same illness we all seem to have in common. Prayers for us all!
- Pamela Clarke Dawson - Clarksburg, OH - Comment: Basic Training in 1974
- Name Withheld - Euclid, OH - Comment: Basic Training at Ft McClellan July 1978-September 1979
- James Griffith, Jr. - Canton, OH - Comment: Basic and AIT Ft McClellan in March '79. B12
- Lora Apking - Waynesville, OH - Comment: Ft McClellan 1977
- Donna Gant - Hillsboro, OH - Comment: I attended MP OSUT at Ft. McClellan in 1986-87 and began experiencing effects of toxic exposure during the basic portion of my training. I was not only hospitalized with gastrointestinal problems during my training at Ft. Mac but I also developed a Morton's neuroma in my right foot and required surgery to remove it at my first duty station. Needless to say, I was unable to walk without the use of crutches for 6 weeks which didn't sit well with my new First Sargeant. During the first year after my exposure at Ft. Mac, I began experiencing symptoms of ADHD, chronic bronchitis and chest discomfort among other physical illnesses. Since leaving the Army in 1990, I have had Endometrial cancer which required a hysterectomy at age 30 and am currently diagnosed with degenerative disc disease, neuropathy, COPD, asthma, hypothyroidism, migraines with a muscle spasm component, IBS, Crohn's disease and Multiple Sclerosis symptoms. Additionally, there is no family history of the majority of these diagnosis. Most importantly, I am only 52 years old, no longer able to maintain employment as a Special Education Teacher, have difficulty performing daily life skills and am disabled, due to what I feel are illnesses contracted due to toxic exposure at Ft. Mac.
- M. Kirby - Hamilton, OH
- Reece E. Furlow, Jr. - Pleasant Plain, OH - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan over the summer of 1989 for Basic Training. The day we went on the NBC range I got sick and rand a high fever. Had to spend 3 days in the hospital. They told me it was strep throat but I dont remember my throat being sore. I am now 42 and I have lost my left Kidney, Adrenal Gland and part of my back muscle to Cancer. I am Anemic. I have arthritis. I also have short term memory issues as well as difficulty in thinking at times.
- Patricia Zapien - Circleville, OH - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan for 9 months in 1980 to 81. Have many unexplained illnesses and more cropping up yearly. Could my time at McClellan be the answer.
- Jared Fliegel - Columbus, OH - Comment: OSUT - Sep 1994 to Feb 1995
- Scott Grow - Dayton, OH - Comment: I have the skeletal stucture of someone 20 yrs older than I, high blood pressure at a young age, and out of this world anxiety and depression. I don't have a family history of any of these.
- Charles Potts - South Vienna, OH
- Karen L. Wyer-Wiscott - Warren, OH - Comment: I took basic training at Fort McClellan Jan-March 1976 A-2-5. I had Stage 3A inflamatory ductal carcinoma which led to a total left macectomy w/lymph node dissection. I also, have arthritis in most of my joints, degenerative discs, hip problems. Who know what else. Plan to talk to my primary care doctor at my CBOC about testing.
- Rick Parsons - Shelby, OH - Comment: AIT Oct 86- Feb87 live agent training BNCOC
High cholesterol and white blood counts is always high they cant find a reason for it. back neck jaw pain. headaches and I eat healthy maintain weight. Pray for the rest of you who have so much more But it cant just be a fluke
- Ron Pasco - Dayton, OH
- Robert E. Booth - Columbus, OH - Comment: United States Army Ret. Station Fort McCellan 1981-85 Basic Training Committee Group, 86 Korea , 87, 89, 701st MP Bn. Lived with family Morton road housing area, Have Diabetes type 2, Removal of Gall Badder, Paralysis of IlIo-Inguinal Nerve,four operation for Peripheral neuropathy with bypass, Filed claim for Toxic Exposure Fort McClellan, 1981-87 total time their. I filed with the attachmement, from the FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL BASELINE SURVEY FORT MCCLELLAN, ALABAMA That stated that the housing area that I live in were infected with PCB, ( Asbestos) the Dept of Veterans Affairs place the claim under the rule of a Implied claim of Multiple Sclerosis. and other words the rating criteria for (Asbestos ) so they Analogy meaning since the condition isn't in the rating criteria they will go ot one that is somewhat identical you have to look and Dept of Veterans Affairs (Memorandum) April13, 2000 From General Counsel 022 VAOPGCPREC4-2000 Subj: Nature of Manual Provision Concering Claims Involving Asbestos Related Diseases Need for Medical-Nexus Evidence in Asbestos-Related Claims. Thank You Robert E. Booth US Army (Ret.)
- Everett Haley - Frazeysburg, OH
- Sherron McComas - Jamestown, OH
- Daniel McKenna - Avon, OH - Comment: Basic and AIT in 1987 795th MP Bn.
- Brian Williams - Urbana, OH - Comment: MP Basic Training D12, 3rd PLT. Aug-Dec 1984.
- Joyce (Jacofsky) Negrette - Twinsburg, OH
- Robert Jack - Loveland, OH - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan in 97 during Basic and AIT training. I have had continued medical issues to include, joint pain, constant dry skin, and continued and unexplainable dental issues along with other things. Same story as other people Doctors can't explain and I'm left with no solutions trying to solve the problem and pay the bills myself. It's a sad and frustrating day that today on Veterans Day while I'm searching for old friends that were also at Fort McClellan that this info is accidentally discovered. We volunteer and are willing to give our lives for this country out of the love we have for it but then we are mislead and lied to never to be taken care of in return. Sign me up I want to be a part of this action to make this right for all that deserve to not be ignored.
- Brenda Gayle Tancayo (Robinson) - The Plains, OH
- Eric Peyton - Cortland, OH
- Jeremy M. Lanham - Toledo, OH
- Jim Duttry - Vermillion, OH - Comment: Basic and AIT Aug 1979 to Nov 1979 C-10
- Al Aliff - Pataskala, OH - Comment: Kidney cancer among other issues
- Eileen Callahan (White) - Canton, OH - Comment: Severe infertility, 3 miscarriages, hypothyroidism/hashimotos. Other med issues
- Randy Mullinnex - Dresden, OH - Comment: Joint pain (toes, knees, hip, shoulder, elbow, wrist, fingers)
- Mary A. Mullins - Ashland, OH - Comment: Ft Mac... 9-2-1987 to 2-5-1988
- Christine Neville - Dayton, OH - Comment: My mother was stationed there in the early 80's. She was diagnosed with cancer in 1995 and past away in 2005. Her mother, who spent about a year there with us, passed of cancer 4 months later. I have suffered with severe memory loss, vision loss, had to have a hysterectomy at only 27, but suffered for YEARS before that. BUT what kills me more than anything is that my children AND now grandchildren have genetic issues that do not run in our family
- Teresa L. Ottaviai - Huron, OH - Comment: These toxic symptoms that we are suffering from need to be addressed NOW! The ETA closed the fort in 1999 and we still don't have healthcare or disability from the VA for our toxic exposure, 15 YEARS after it was shut down and 30+ years since being exposed! MAKE THIS HAPPEN! We have waited long enough!
- Rosemary McClanahan - Cincinnati, OH - Comment: I was there in 1978. so far I've had 6 different cancer surgeries. spinal stenosis, copd asthmas, colon problems, gasternal intestinal problems ,endrmetrosis, etc
- Brian Rose - Loveland, OH - Comment: my initial exposure was in basic / OSUT in spring of 1993. Within 5 years I had my first back surgery while in the military. Since then a second back surgery, knee surgery, more herniated disc din spine due to degenerative disc disease. I also suffer fiber myalgia, arthritis in spine, knees, wrists. Tingling in hands and memory loss. I'm 45 and left my career in law Enforcement last year due to health problems. Hope someone eventually listens to us!
- Allen Hehn - Lawton, OK
- Wade Schools - McLoud, OK - Comment: 54 Bravo - Chemical Operations Specialist Veteran
OSUT at Ft. McClellan Alabama from 27 Aug 93 until 21 Jan 94 , Delta Company, 82nd Chemical Battalion, 1st Platoon Cold Steel Class # 009-93
- Karolyn Klinger-Bradshaw - Hobart, OK - Comment: Both myself and my life partner spent time at Fort McClellan. We are both having many physical problems that may have stemmed from our time at Fort McClellan.
- Carl Ellison - Purcell, OK
- Kris Biddle - Sallisaw, OK - Comment: A Co 787th MP Bn, Jan - May 98
- Donnie Smith, Jr. - Tecumseh, OK - Comment: I'd like to be kept up to date on this. Was stationed at Ft MCcellan 1987. Delta Company 40th MP Bat 4th platoon.
- Private - Moore, OK
- Vicki Bender - Altus, OK - Comment: I was 18 and my mother wanted me to have better life then she had. She dreamed I would join the military. I have had several cysts removed from my body. Doctors cant tell me why I have them. They just grow in strange places. One son had Non Hodgkin's lymphoma , one was still born. I suffer from extreme high blood pressure. That you would expect in a 80 year old. I am 53. I suffer from memory loss at times. I think about what my mother thought she was doing for me I know she would be ashamed that my government made her grand children and I ill
- Cathy J. VanBuskirk - Norman, OK - Comment: I have spent thousands of dollars to try and get an answer definitively about my health issues, and am tired of being passed from doctor to doctor. If this is the cause, I want to know the long-term effects. We deserve to know that much, at least.
- Sarinah Cable - Oklahoma City, OK - Comment: Endocrine and nervous system problems, decreased ovaries, fibrosis, endometriosis, total hysterectomy with ovaries at 30, joint pain, skin cancer on back and neck removed, high anxiety, ibs, Gerd, gall bladder removed, insomnia, thyroid problems, deteriorating teeth, restless legs syndrome, anemia, headaches, eye twitches, vision problems, glaucoma, sinuses, rheumatoid arthritis, carpal tunnel both hands, tmj, ptsd, skin conditions, asthma and copd. That is what it comes to for mow. They want to do mri of the head because i have migraine headaches every day... it sucks. When i told the doctor about Ft McClellan he acted like he did not hear me and avoided the whole thing.
- Gordon Sturrock - Euguene, OR
- Clyde Snyder - Myrtle Creek, OR - Comment: Company A, 12th BN, 4th PLT, Aug 1983
- Barbara Duncan - Klamath Falls, OR - Comment: I have asthma, hypo-thyroid, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, carpel tunnel syndrome, diverticulitis, rosacea, lichen planus, dermatitis, and the most recent diagnosis but probably the oldest condition I've suffered from - fibromyalgia. Trained Sept. 1980 - Jan. 1981 at Ft. McClellan AL
- Gordon Krom - Pendleton, OR
- Ellecia Fitch DeCouteau - Milwaukie, OR - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan in 1984 for basic, AIT and a mandatory special assignment for a few months right after AIT.
- Justin W. Morris - Millcity, OR - Comment: Started Basic Mar 22, 1983 with A Co 12th MP BN. Graduated with E Co 12th MP due to illness and injurys VA not being much help....
- Blaine Nix - Stayton, OR - Comment: Bco 79th MP Battalion 1987-1988.
- Gregory Coffman - Brownsville, OR - Comment: Attended basic training at ft McClellan starting September 1981.Attended the chemical school in October 1985 to Change my MOS to 54B (NBC). I now have many medical conditions that makes me wonder if if was from the time I spent there.
- Scott Burrows - Gresham, OR - Comment: MP Basic Training 06/09/1989 to 8/16/1989
MP BNOC 10/25/1994 to 12/22/1994
Service Medical Records (SMR) show multiple visits to sick-call and hospital for unknown illnesses (i.e. headaches, infections, rashes, vomiting, nausea,, diarrhea, and other unusual conditions). Hospitalized in 1994 at BNOC for a week for unexplained illnesses. I suspect that my diabetes and peripheral neuropathy are a result of this military post.
- Kat Bell - Salem, OR
- Cary Foster - Klamath Falls, OR - Comment: I have Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia,heart disease,Trigeminal neuralgia,cataracts,infertility,multiple miscarriages,and my joints and muscles hurt
- Ginger Humphrey - Medford, OR - Comment: Basic Training early 1987
- Deborah Hash - Eugene, OR
- Myrna Trull - Beaverton, OR - Comment: I was stationed at FMC for BT in Nov 1975; MP Officer Basic Course in April 1980 and MP Officer Advanced Course Jan 1985
- Rikard Bellerue - Sutherlin/Oakland, OR - Comment: Served in Vietnam from Apr 1970 to Feb 1972, got out and went back in June 1976. Was at FMC for MP School from Jul to Sep 1976. Hard to tell where I got the exposure, but I have Type II Diabetes and am getting diabetic neuropathy.
- Valerie Vinson - Lincoln City, OR - Comment: Fort McClellan for Basic and AIT from July 1995 to November 1995 and than again for MPI School October 1998 to December 1998.
- Jeremy Hatton - Cottage Grove, OR - Comment: B Co. 795th MP BN Oct 1990 - Feb 1991.
- Susannah Garza - St. Helens, OR
- Elayne Roland - Portland, OR - Comment: Multiple miscarriages, multiple abdominal
surgeries resulting in full radical hysterectomy at age 28, emergency
gallbladder removal that looked like black mush, hearing loss, severe
intestinal aggravation, memory loss, severe muscle and joint pain, idiopathic
peripheral neuropathy in my feet and hands, aggression, high anxiety,
depression, eating disorders, dental issues.
Afib, IBS, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, inverted moles, skin tags, severe endometriosis, digenerative disc disease.
Chronic homelessness - unable to keep a job due to CFS and insomnia as well as painful knees, feet, hips and lower back issues.
My children have fertility issues as well, youngest child has a tumor on the right side of her face that moves around her jaw line and is very painful. Children also had learning difficulties and anger management issues as well.
These are just some of the things I can remember off the top of my head. I was at Fort Mac from January through April 1982, E-10, 95B.
From day one I found myself in the infirmary for three days with an URI, returned to the company area and within one month I severely injured my right knee and trained on it for two additional months before being unceremoniously pulled and sent home. Still fighting that knee, lower back and left hip injury 33 years later.
Hoping to find relief medically and financially for being toxically chemically exposed while training for my dream career as a US Military Policewoman.
- Brenda Pheasant Bracken Harris - Johnstown, PA
- Name Withheld - Stroudsburg, PA - Comment: = In the process of filing claim w/VA.Thats why remaining Anonymous. For a list of ailments.( PTSD, Dysteria, Upper&Lower Back problems,Sinitus,Anxiety,Deppression etc..) Some may be related to Ft McClellan others to possibly other duty locations. Thank You for your work you are doing may we all salute you!
- John Hollar - York, PA
- Todd Schollhammer - Henryville, PA - Comment: "Cold War Vet" MP/Tower Rat McClellan ,Ala 1979 Basic& MP School.
1980-81 Ft Meade,MD White Hat Duty, Riot Control Back-Up Security for Wash D.C., Amphibious School,Little Creek,Va, Ft Indiantown Gap,Pa Cuban Refugee Crisis of 1980.,President Ragean Innauguration........
!981-late '82 B-Battery 2/56 ADA 32nd AADCOM NATO Forces Command.Landau-Germersheim,W.Germany. Security Force Nike/Hawk Missle Lnchr Site. Closed/Terminated base in 1983 & buried all the evidence. (Herbivides,Pestisides etc..for maintenance of site weed/grass control..)
- Michael Lokar - Darlington, PA - Comment: Was there for AIT in 84, Smoke Operations.
- Kevin Holmberg - Altoona, PA
- Vincent McNevin - Somerset, PA - Comment: I attended BT and MP School at FMC from Jun to Oct 1989. For the past several years I have had several weird health issues, including IBS, depression, gall bladder that had to be removed, the list goes on.
- Chad Schulze - Everette, PA - Comment: many illnesses
- Darris L. Allshouse, Jr. - Lyndora, PA
- William J. Miller - Tyrone, PA - Comment: was at FMC from June 82 till Oct of 82 for basic and AIT as a 54E 10 NBC specialist.
- Mary Ann Lewellyn - Lehighton, PA
- Cynthia Chuplis - Middleport, PA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan (Basic Training) 1972. I was stationed there 1976-78 (4th Combat Support Hospital) and lived in Anniston AL at the time (off post) . I have had chronic fatigue, osteoporosis and an elevated ANA in my blood work
- Gregory Johnson - Pittsburgh, PA
- Steven Druckemiller - Lewistown, PA - Comment: When I found out about this it explained a lot. I am the only one to have all the problems that have in my family.
- Patrick Sommers - New Wilmington, PA - Comment: Stationed at FMC Aug 1990 - Dec 1990 for Basic/AIT.
- Craig Woodal - Mechanicsburg, PA-Comment: Went to basic and AIT at FMC in 95
- Elaine Susan Grimes - Altoona, PA - Comment: Basic training April 1964 to June 1964
- Gregory J. Tischler - Clarks Summit, PA
- Erin Wiggle - Skippack, PA
- Kevin Barrett - Nanticoke, PA - Comment: At Ft. Mc twice --basis/AIT and Exercise Golden Pistols . Have multiple lumps and skin tags all over body-diagnosed as neurofibromatosis but no one in family has similar, Also neuropathy, asthma (never smoked),frequent headaches, arthritis, knee replacements, hip replacement, thrombosis and list goes on....
- Gabriela Buzulak - Spring Run, PA
- Aida Montanez - Reeders, PA - Comment: Graves' disease - pre-diabetic due to exposure at Ft McClellan------------> any local vets affiliated with Ft McClellan feel free to contact me! Asthma, degenerative disc disease, lumbosacral radiculopathy, anxiety.
- James A Ritchey, Sr. - Lewistown, PA
- Georg Anne Lindy - Bradford, PA
- Judy F. Hoffmeister - Birdsboro, PA - Comment: I have a variety of health issues that can't be pinpointed to any one disease, but they are real issues. Some days my body hurts so bad I can hardly walk, other days I'm fine. I have digestive issues that are not related to Chromes Disease or Colitis but the symptoms are there
- Mandy Colosimo (RUSH) - Bradford, PA - Comment: Basic and AIT Ft Mac 1994
- Therese A. Herlihy - Gettysburg, PA
- Debra Forshey Schucker - Lewistown, PA - Comment: Was in Ft. McClellan in 1978. For basic/ait. Suffer from back/spine problems, 2 spine fusions in past 2 1/2 years. Hamartomas in breast (large tumors, so far no cancer). Hysterectomy at age 30. Arthritis since 23 yrs old, diagnosed by Military Dr. In Germany 1979. Joint pain. Have suffered for over 15 years with severe pain, unable to work, feel much older than 57. Thanks for your work on this. God bless all Veterans of Ft. Mac for their service
- John Snook - New Bloomfield, PA - Comment: I was there from un 1995 to oct 1995 was a high school athlete and then came down with epilepsy in oct have depression which they say is leading into ptsd and bi polarism. This all stems from the chemicals I was exposed to at ft. mclellan
- Mark Marchesi - Levittown, PA - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan from June 1984 to Oct. 1984 for Basic and MP School. I have experienced symptoms like the others here. It's time we start caring about the people that served this Country, and make things right!
- Tim Breakiron - Dunbar, PA - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan in 1987 for basic and AIT. Two years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare Neuro-muscular disease known as Myasthenia Gravis. My nerves and muscles are shot. I have to take the regimented medication and the blood infusions (IV) monthly, or I will more than likely die. I was told by a doctor, that I am experiencing the effect of nerve agents. Coincidence?
- Kristine Adkins - Liverpool, PA - Comment: I was stationed at FT McClellan in 1980 for basic training. I too have suffered with multiples ailments, degenerative discs, cervical pain, numbness/tingling in both feet, depression/anxiety, aching joints, weak knees, forgetfulness, and hip joint pain. The toxins and the extreme levels recorded on the base for several years have placed all who lived or worked on the base in undue danger for health related illnesses and diseases. We answered the call of our country to serve, and now our country delays in helping us? Please support, compensate and stand by the men and women who served without question.
- Deborah LeCours Stiles - Shelocta, PA
- Erik Maxwell - Erie, PA - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan from 1996 to 1999 and lived off post most of that time.
- Diane C. Burley - Red Lion, PA - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan in 1976. I have experienced a host of dis-eases mainly a rash that will not subside on both legs, diabetes, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, and many numerous others that only my medical records from the Veterans Administration can state. Thank you
- Jeff White - Jamestown, PA - Comment: Currently suffering from multiple unexplained and undiagnosed symptoms that resemble Gulf War Syndrome. Never served in the Middle East theater of operation.
- Mary VanBlargan - Drums, PA
- Debra (Kunder) Schucker - Yeagertown, PA - Comment: Ft Mac Basic/AIT 78. Multiple surgeries too many for normal 57 yr old. Many other health problems.
- Mary Delsanter Shades - N. Huntingdon, PA - Comment: I just came across the info on Ft Mcclellan.......WOW I was there from Sept to Nov 1973 basic training.... company D I also am suffering from some of the ailments listed I was diag w/diabetes 5 yrs ago, and a hypothyroid; I have had asthma and breathing problems for many years whenever I exercise or when I am exposed to certain scents. The information I am reading surely gives Me food for thought.
- Robert Sorensen - Montrose, PA
- William Brennan - Dallas, PA
- William Miller - Scranton, PA
- Tracy DeSanti - Erie, PA
- Vicki Dash-Slesinski - West Grove, PA - Comment: Was stationed at Fort McClellan during basic training in 1975. Prior to enlisting in the Army I was a competitive swimmer, didn't smoke, drink, or take drugs. Was very healthy and have always lived a clean life in that respect. Shortly after basic training I noticed growths inside my nose that still come back from time to time. In my early 40's had a cat scan because of a high adventure trip that required an intense physical. They noticed cysts on my ovaries and scarring in my lower lungs. A few years later was treated for Stage I ovarian cancer and survived that. Have been cancer free for 10 years but have thyroid problems. I have been more fortunate than others who served there. I also believe I was exposed to Agent Orange while serving in Okinawa. They have been digging up leaked barrels of this stuff on that island in the last several years and I recalled seeing workers spraying something on the plant life around the barracks.
Puerto Rico
- Maribel Rivera-Tirado - Ciales, PR
- Jesus Garcia-Arce - Ponce, PR - Comment: I am suffering a different illness. Breast mass, radiculopathy, peripheral Neuropathy, skin condition, arthritis and other related illnesses.
- Angel G. Romero - Aibonito, PR
Rhode Island
- Glenn M Gray - Ashaway, RI - Comment: Crohns Disease
- Dennis Tremblay - Central Falls, RI - Comment: p.t.s.d,disc problems ect. ect. ect
- Edward Zarksi, Jr. - Cumberland, RI - Comment: Kidney, eye, bowel, gland issues. Eye specialist could not pin point the eye condition well. Laser helped keep my sight.
- Robert Murillo - Smithfield, RI - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. Mcclellan in the mid 1990's . About 7 years ago I developed Psoriasis. No one in my family has Psoriasis and from what ive been told by doctors it usually comes on at an earlier age. I am 39 right now.Has any one else had any skin issues?
South Carolina
- Rick Byrum - Ridgeway, SC
- Laurie Edwards - Boiling Springs, SC
- Michael E. Fraser - Columbia, SC - Comment: Ft. McClellan - 1982 to 1982 (Basic Training) and 1986 to 1986 for Chemical Officer Basic Course. Also, served in the USAR and attended annual training at Pelham Range on numerous occasions.
- John Stroud - Greenville, SC - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan from Sept 1980 - Aug 1982 at 4th Combat Surgical Hosp (4th CSH)
- Ronnal Womack - Ladson, SC - Comment: Lived in McKenzie, Al at the time of entering basic camp in Anniston, AL
- Leigh Ann Mann - Ft. Mill, SC
- Gerald Proveaux - Branchville, SC
- Boyd Bearden - Denmark, SC - Comment: Served at FMC 1988 to 1990. Now retired from Reserve/Guard. Suffering from 7 to 8 symptoms from exposure. Got 100% disability from Civilian Doctor. Next VA Rep.
- Mark A. Spires - West Columbia, SC - Comment: OSUT Aug-Dec 1978.
- Gilbert Lynn Rolfe - Liberty, SC - Comment: Served from 7/80 to 6/84 with Co. D. 46 Engs. Was a Heavy Equipment Operator. We did a ton of projects on the base. I have degenerating Disc in my back, pain in my muscles, memory loss, sinus problems. I haven't slept a whole night since being at Ft. Mac.
- Scot Wetzig - Summerville, SC
- Joseph Twaddle - Bluffton, SC - Comment: MP C-10 1986. 701st MP Bn MP School 86-87
- Anne Sablan Topasna - Summerville, SC - Comment: I WAS IN FMC IN NOV 73 FOR BASIC TRAINING; APPROXIMATELY A YEAR IN TO MY MILITARY SERVICE, I STARTED EXPERIENCING HIVES, INITIAL ONSET OF BRONCHITIS, SUBSEQUENTLY PROGRESSING INTO COPD; I HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED BY THE VA PHYSICIANS WITH COLITIS/OVARIAN AND UTERUS CYSTS, KIDNEY & LIVER CYSTS, ARTHRITIS OF THE NECK, DEGENERATIVE BONE DISEASE, HYPERTENSION, DEPRESSION AND MOST RECENTLY SUFFERED BLEEDING IN MY BRAIN DUE TO SEIZURES,)AND HAVE MUSCLE & JOINT PAINS. I AM ON CONTINUOUS USE OF OXYGEN FOR MY COPD; HAVE BEEN INTUBATED AND ON LIFE SUPPORT TWICE SINCE 2005, 12 DAYS BEING THE LONGEST ON THE RESPIRATOR. NONE OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS HAVE ANY OF THE ABOVE STATED DISEASES, OTHER THAN HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, WHICH 2 OF MY BROTHERS WHO SERVED IN VIETNAM AND A SISTER WHO ATTENDED BASIC TRAINING IN FMC HAVE. THANK YOU. I REQUEST THAT ONLY MY FIRST NAME AND INITIAL OF MY MIDDLE & LAST NAME BE PUBLISHED.
South Dakota
- Name Withheld - Yankton, SD
- Brian K. Klein - Lead, SD - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan from November 1981 to April 1982. I crawled in the dust and mud, I drank the water, I showered with the water, and I ate the food prepared with the water. I have long suffered with a debilitating degenerative spine and neurological problems. My doctors have never been able to pinpoint the cause of my problems. I recently learned of the contamination at Fort McClellan and strongly suspect that my time there may have been the root of my illness. Unfortunately, without the passage of this bill, I may never know and can not afford the testing to verify the cause. Please support this bill and bring some hope to the unwitting victims of this toxic exposure, we deserve to be heard. Thank you.
- Kella With Horn - Aberdeen, SD
- Ernest "Ernie" Williams - Rapid City, SD - Comment: MS, bi-polar, multiple nueroma's, psychological disorders.
- John Grabowska - Leola, SD
- Jeffrey M. Sargent - Sioux Falls, SD
- Lea Parker - Memphis, TN
- Laura Kraus - Elizabethton, TN - Comment: Ft McClellan, AL 1978 MP Bravo 10th. Pancreatic Cancer survivor.
- Ronald J. Click - Manchester, TN - Comment: Started my Army career at Ft. McClellan in 1978 and continued there for MP school. My first PCS was to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL. Chemicals have been reported there as well.
- Bryon Wallace - Lascassas, TN - Comment: i am a Fort McClellan veteran. i have lumps that keep coming up on my body(glands that have to be removed), high blood pressure, diabetes. sleep less nites, and come down sick alot for no reason.
- Jaimie Pirozzi - Clarksville, TN - Comment: I've been in the Army for just over 16 years. Initially, I went to basic training & AIT @ lovely Fort McClellan AL as a 54B in Aug of 1997. Eventually, I crossed over after I blew out my knee to become a Preventive Medicine Specialist. In 1999, at the age of 19, I had major abdominal surgery to remove an ovarian cyst the size of a baby's head. They had to pull it out whole, so already I looked like I'd had a c-section at 19 years old. I've had multiple health issues throughout my time, stress fractures, many knee issues(weakness, tendonitis, etc) all of which I simply attributed to being in the military. I always wondered why I never got pregnant, seeing as I've been married a few times, and my mom has always made comments about how fertile our family is. I began to have a lot of abdominal pains, and horrible periods. I won't go into detail here, just an unimaginable amount of pain constantly. I went in many times to have ultrasounds done to make sure I didn't have another cyst, nope nothing. Before I left for my 2nd deployment to Iraq, I started to have even more female issues. But, it wasn't anything that I couldn't deal with. It got worse and worse. By the time I got back, I had begun to have 6 straight weeks of bleeding at a time. After 1 year of testing, ultrasounds, trying of different therapies, and drugs, the doctors finally did an exploratory surgery. I had endometriosis so engrained in my abdomen that it was wrapped around my intestines, cutting off blood flow, a hydrosalpinx of my left fallopian tube, and more cysts. Which explains a lot of the pain. They took out as much as they could, sewed me back up, and told me to take BC and NSAIDS. In 2011, I had another surgery at Vanderbilt in Nashville. The doctor, who was a gyn oncologist and who had dealt with horrible, crazy scar tissue removals, and cancer tissue removals, could not get all the adhesions out. She had to separate my uterus from my abdominal wall, my colon from my uterus, and many other large chunks of adhesions were removed. But not all of it. She just couldn't do it without causing too much damage.
I've had tendonitis in just about every tendon possible, surgery on my left shoulder for it. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2009, and have a very difficult time keeping my weight down, even with the medication. This year(2013), I began having issues again, and now have a nodule on my thyroid. Too small to do anything about at this point, but they adjusted my medication because my symptoms were getting crazy again. I've dealt with and fought depression issues most of my career, and it kills my mother to watch me. I am in constant pain in regards to my joints, something always hurts, and even when my thyroid levels are perfect, I am constantly tired. All I want to do is sleep. I don't know how much of this is/is not linked to my exposures at McClellan, but I hope to God that something is done for my fellow vets who have been exposed. My mother was stationed at Camp Lejune, and she just got letters and surveys regarding their exposures last year, and she was stationed there in the late 1970s. I hope we can get a quicker response.
- Edith Axley-Young - Big Sandy, TN - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan in 1970 for basic. My late husband died from Agent Orange. We could not get the VA to test him for years. In the end two months after he died they requested him to come in for testing. Those of us that were stationed at Fort McClellan served our country, it is the least our county can do is to help all of those affected. So many have illnesses they can not explain other than by being exposed to these toxins
- Helen Taylor - Clarksville, TN - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan for basic training when I was 17 in 1977. I have been diagnosed with cancer.
- Stewart Hicks - Gray, TN
- Sean Kent - Brentwood, TN
- John W. Tripp - Oliver Springs, TN - Comment: I have Ulsurative Colitis, join pain.
- Chadler Dale Tucker - Powell, TN - Comment: Diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis (autoimmune disorder and skin condition) in 2002 seven years after a honorable discharge from the army. Served active for 5 years 1989 to 1995
- Julie Crowder-Ward - Benton, TN - Comment: I worked as an Archeologist there in 1996. This past year I was diagnosed with IBS. I also have problems with joint pain,fatigue, headaches and skin issues. Just learned of all the problems with the base today.
- Catherine A. (Fogler) Groff - Rogersville, TN - Comment: I have suffered from autoimmune and lung cancer. I was stationed there in 1960 for basic.
- Brian Forrest - Sevierville, TN - Comment: did basic at FMC from Jan to Apr 1982. Now suffer from a long list of autoimmune diseases as well as heart disease.
- Alex Williamson - Murfreesboro, TN - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan in the fall of 1998. I now have multiple disk deterioration issues including one that has randomly fractured for no reason. Also have skin issues with some sort of scaling like psoriasis or something. Also my teeth randomly chip and fall apart.
- Bonnie Erspamer - Clarksville, TN - Comment: Have numerous issues that many other vets that were assigned to FMC. Hopefully someone will support our fight.
- James Ramsey - Chattanooga, TN - Comment: I am an Army veteran who served at Fort McClellan in 1980, and was exposed to the toxins. I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I just found out about the toxin exposure situation yesterday, and knowing this explains a lot to me and my loved ones. Please continue the fight to get H.R. 411 passed and do everything you can to get the word out about this, so veterans like myself can get the help we deserve.
- Cecilia F. Flowers - New Johnsonville, TN
- Bob Bridgmon - Erin, TN - Comment: disk are gone , vertibrays falling apart , 4 back surgerys ,both knees replaced ,lumps on skin ,reflux at ft mac summer of 68
- Sherry Jackson Graf - Nashville, TN
- Thomas J. Marco - Pleasant View, TN - Comment: I ETS'd with 10% high blood pressure in 1978, tested and no known reason. Had heart attack at 45 and now at 60% VA disability. I'm currently appealing my type 2 diabetes case that has been denied, May 2013.
- John Bovenzi - Clarksville, TN - Comment: Stationed at Ft. McClellan in Jul '79 throught Sep '79. My father also stationed there in 1942 for a year long training during WWII, he died of renal cancer at age 60. My sisters and I all suffer from spinal birth defects.
- Dennis Womack - Monteagle, TN
- Richard Bash - Knoxville, TN
- Michelle L. Coffey - Blountville, TN.
- Todd O'Neal - Powell, TN - Comment: OSUT MP School at FMC Feb 1987-Jul 1987.
- John B. Scott- Memphis, TN - Comment: I did my OSUT at Ft. McClellan from April 1981 to August 1981 A 10th was stationed at the 164th in FRG then on to Ft. Rucker Al. then 188th MP CO in the ROK. from there to Ft. McPherson in Atlanta ending my Military time at the 27th ORD CO. in the FRG. I attended BNOC at Ft. McClellan in 89 I think. The Medical issues I have had are blood clots in my leg for no reason they can find, I also have short term memory loss. are their others Vets out there with similar issues? I have not gone to the VA for any treatment because I do not trust them as far as I can throw them.
- John Jefferies - Ooltewah, TN - Comment: was at FMC 03/85 to 07/85 Basic/AIT
- Laurie - Clarksville, TN - Comment: presently in South Korea, but will be there in a couple months.
- Todd Palmer - Knoxville, TN
- Jerry D. Posey - Oneida, TN
- Mary Lea Federico - Fairview, TN - Comment: Everyone has a right to know what happened to them!
- W.D. Wheeler - Mt Juleit, TN
- Scott Smith - Jacksboro, TN
- Kathy Davis - Clarksville, TN - Comment: Had basic training in 1993 and BNCOC in 1997, total of about 8 months stationed at Fort McClellan. I have hypertriglyceridemia which my doctor says at the levels that I was at, I would have to be eating a tub of lard a day! Triglyceride numbers should be below 150, mine were 3,300. My doctor at the time said that it is genetic in origin, that I could not have cause that on mine own, as in the food I was eating. I am also now a Type II diabetic
- Adrienne Esposito - Houston, TX - Harris County
- Steve Stone, Richardson, TX - Comment: Attended MP OSUT D/787th MP BN from Nov 1991-Mar 1992, MPI School Jun-Jul 1994, MP BNCOC Jun-Aug 1998
- Diana Rosagllio - Dallas, TX - Comment: I developed asthma and skin irritations while at Ft Mac. I was deemed infertile, and was not able to bear children. I have muscle spasms in my back, and neck that are painful. Cystic acne, eczema, and fibroid cysts that required a full hysterectomy. Depression and other mental disorders. There are no incidences in my family of these types of issues. None. I can live with my health issues. Other Ft Mac veterans do not have that choice. They are dying. And the government keeps stalling. Senate and congress. Get this health registry act out of the stagnant quagmire you have left it and do your job to stand up for these veterans. Today! Thank you!
- Rose Anderson - Dallas, TX I served at Ft. McClellan in the 60s. I have had many health problems which no other past relatives has had any history of. They include cancer, atrial fibrillation, over-active thyroid, ruptured appendix, ICE syndrone and many others. After seing the 60 minutes TV show about Anniston, I am wondering if it is not related to my stay there.
- Rev. Tony Taylor, DD - El Paso, TX
- Penny Walker - Smithville, TX - Comment: Was stationed at Ft. McClellan in 1977 for Basic Training. I suffer from joint pain, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, leaky gut, endometriosis. Please take care of the troops
- Barbara Kie - Zapata, TX - Comment: I have been fighting my illness 2 weeks after I arrived in Ft. McClellan , I was very in tuned with my body, yet I was not believed, I was able to keep my medical records documenting every time I went to sick call. All the surgeries etc... When I first put in my claim, myself I was told that they had no claim information, so the counselor must have himself sent a form stating that my illness was not service connected. I do believe they just have a standard form. I then wrote into the office in Houston Texas myself and they stated they had no claim on me so I sent in everything myself. I have been diagnosed with RA, I have degenerative and bulging discs in my vertebrae , I have an appointment for a electric wheel chair because I loose mobility at times. I am applying to go to the VA home in Rocky Hill CT. There I have found out that they do take care of their vets very well. Texas could give a damn. I will not give up however, even though they think my life is worth anything. Barbara Kie Echo 12th Bn. 1980
- Daniel James - Sherman, TX
- Jaye-Jaye Johnson - Sugar Land, TX
- Mark R. Scott - Gilmer, TX - Comment: 1988 Chemical AIT and 1991 Chemical BNCOC.
- Brandon Walker - Midway, TX - Comment: I served in 93 at Ft. McClellan. In 1995 I was at Ft. Devens, MA when I started developing migraine headaches, and sleep apnea. My knees also decided to go two separate directions during a training run. Needless to say, I was told it was all in my head and released from Military service in 1996. Not even a few years after I was released, an allergy specialist told me what was going to happen to me and what caused it, but said if he wrote it down he would be disbarred. He is no longer practicing and I hope that he wasn't, especially because the man saved my life. Since then I have been diagnosed as sterile, found to have degenerative disk problems, my knees have grown worse, my frontal lobes have shrunk, my lung capacity has violently shrunk, and the list goes on. The VA recently told me that I was sick and disabled, but because someone on their staff didn't write service connected they were denying all claims, USING MY MILITARY RECORDS! To top it off, if this wasn't as bad as an insult, Waco Regional Office was fined for gross incompetence and negligence handling veteran claims. There are even hand written notes that say to make me a partial deal so I will go away, and proof they were shredding documentation. The IG refuses individual cases but hinted I was one of the files they used in this decision. This doesn't help when they block me from working. Sometimes I wish the pencil pushers that make these decisions without the evidence from we, the veterans that served, would be forced to live off my measly 900 a month compensation for my knees for 5 years and not allowing them to work and see how they feel when their family is in financial straits and they are being lied too about what is wrong.
- Jackie Helms - Sherman Denison, TX
- Name Private - Mercedes, TX
- Diane M. Engelhardt - Temple, TX
- Max Durkee - Rockport, TX
- Dave Craft - San Antonio, TX
- Dustree Muhle South - Dickens, TX
- Gregorio Lopez, Jr. - Laredo, TX - Comment: I was stationed in Ft. McClellan from August
1970-Oct.1970. During that time, I was receiving my Chemical Warfare Apprentice
training. During the training, we were told to experience the effects of a
mustard agent in a liquid form. We were administered one drop on our hands and
then went we felt pain, we told to use the chemical neutralizing agent to stop
the pain. This was supposed to demonstrate to the students the effect of the
mustard agent. I also participated in a drill in order to learn how to make a
chemical safe uniform. We were taken to a contained area filled with nerve
agents and were told to complete the necessary drills in that environment. We
were wearing our protective gear at the time but I feel that the removal of the
nerve agent after the drill was not as effective as it could have been.
I have suffered with a variety of muscle aches, tendons and nerves for a very long time and doctors have been unable to pinpoint the root cause of the pain and how to relieve it. I have accepted the pain and it is a daily part of my life. If anyone has any questions, please message me and I will try to respond ASAP
- Loyd Bouton - Weimar, TX
- Raymond A. Dennis - Dallas, TX
- Kevin Kildow - Little River Academy, TX - Comment: Went to basic in 95 and AIT in 96 for MOS 54B
- Sheldon Shirrarr Ashley - Matador, TX - Comment: 1989 Ft McClellan 82nd Chemical Battalion Charlie co for basic, up the hill to Foxtrot for ait 54 bravo chem ops. now have R A, diabetes , neuropathy, 4 disk out in neck 4 out in lower back, high blood pressure, breathing problems, blurred vision, head aches, stutter now, sleep problems, skin problems.
- Juanita Lovett - Livingston, TX - Comment: I have been diagnosed with breast cancer, degenerative joint disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, severe acid reflux requiring surgery, as well as issues involving tumors on my ovaries. My body does not process sugar and I have spots on my lungs as well as my thyroid. These are just the main medical problems I have.
- Estela Gomez - Corpus Christi, TX - Comment: Field Traning Instructor / Basic Traning at Ft McClellan...1972 / 1975....Started getting werid medical issues in 1986.....found out about toxic exposure in 2013 and then everything made sense !
- Chenell Brooks - Austin, TX - Comment: Skin issues, female issues (hysterectomy) back surgery, knee surgery, and surgery for cancer.
- George Sheldon - Conroe, TX - Comment: Basic and AIT Sep 79 to Jan 80
- Kenneth Johnson - El Paso, TX - Comment: I attended the last CBRNCO classs at Ft.
McClellen in February, 1973 .
I have hardening of the arteries, including the Aorta, severe joint pain, polycythemia, damage to my reproductive system, chronic fatigue syndrome, tinnitus, spinal degeneration, spinal stenosis, a Tarlov Cyst on my spinal cord, constant burning in my skin all over, diabetes type II, coronary artery disease, and kidney cancer (clear cell renal carcenoma), neuololgical problems, gastro-intestional problems, and memory loss. Some symptoms presented within a year or two of my training at Ft. MAC. Others were slower to present, and finally the heart problems hit in 2013, followed by diabetes, then kidney cancer in 2014. Right kidnet was removed. VA awarded me a 50% service connected disability upon my retirement from the Army in 1989. In early 2013 I could no longer work and took early Social Security retirement. Two months later they awarded complete disability. Now, I'm fighting VA to get up to 100% service connected. Since there is no presumptive awards considered for FT. MAC, it is on me to prove toxic exposure. It has been well documented that Agent Orange WAS present and used at FT. MAC. as well as as all the chemical agents, decontaminates, radioactive samples, and TCE as well as PCB's and Benzine present and a danger to us all. Good luck to all of you in getting the appropriate medical treatment and compensation you EARNED
- Irma Garza - San Antonio, TX - Comment: It has cost me every dime to stay alive from the medical costs I and my daughter incurred from the toxic exposure at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Private drs nonstop since 1980. Our lives were destroyed by Posion and even after Congressional nvestigations proved the chemicals there, the VA still denys it. The military is the only one who is allowed to be "INNOCENT EVEN AFTER BEING PROVEN GUILTY". Where is justice in America and the checks and balances we put ourselves on the line for??
- James Jones - Bridge City, TX
- Beth Allsop - McKinney, TX - Comment: I began getting sick in 2003 I have 5 auto-immune disorders listed in HR 411, have been treated for a brain tumor, chronic migraines since aged 25, and last but not least idiopathic nerve pain (cause un-diagnosed) by 8 prominent Pain Specialists and the Dallas VA pain clinic. It's tough to hold a job since the economy tanked-when you're on temp, contract or even the first 90 days of full time work when you're in constant pain not completely controlled by medication, have to be absent for countless surgeries and then have other contributing conditions on top of the pain.
The government owes me full compensation for disability not to mention the 10's of thousands for the last decade of treatment.
I was extremely shocked that I had to find out about my declining health causes on Facebook that's an outrage!!! We served our country yet our country will not serve us back!
- Daniel Gandal - Rosenburg, TX
- Victor Ortiz - Weslaco, TX - Comment: I WAS A MARINE STATION THERE IN 1980 FOR MILITARY POLICE ACADEMY. I UED TO FEEL VERY UPTIGHT BEING THERE ON THAT BASE,. I WAS A VERY ACTIVE MARINE, I USED TO GO JOGGING AROUND THE BASE, AND INTO THE WOODS, AND EVERTIME I RAN INTO THE WOODS, I WOULD DICOVER WEIRD THING OUT THERE.. I REMBER ONE TIME I FOUND A CAMP BASE , WITH A FENCE AROUND IT, LIKE IF IT WAS USED FOR SOME WEIRD EXPERIMENTS, IT LOOK OLD. I ALWAYS FELT THAT I WAS BEING USED AS A GUINE PIG THERE. NOW I AM 53 YR, OLD I DEVELOP PROSTATE CANCER AT 47 AND SKINS CONDITIONS AROUND MY HEAD AND FACE THAT WONT GO AWAY. I HAVE BEEN DEPRESS PLUS I HAVE VERY BAD PTSD . I GO TO THE VA AND THEY HAVE NEVER EVER MENTION CHEMICAL EXPOSER OR ANY THING LIKE THAT TO ME. NOW THAT I AM AWARE OF THIS,. I KNOW WHAT IS THE PROBLEM NOW, AND TO TOP IT OFF, I WAS STATION AT EL TORO MARINE BASE TOO, ANOTHER TOXIC PLACE.
- Nicholas Brown - Flint, TX - Comment: I have had numerous medical issues to include 2 brain tumor surgeries and radiation therapy for a brain tumor which could have been caused by exposure to radiation while at basic at Ft. Mac. 1992
- Mitchell Foster - Temple, TX - Comment: Degenerative Bone, foot numbness, three disc's problems from degeneration, patch of hair loss, etc... I tried to talk with a person who works at the VA Central TX about this and was told the VA will not recognize problems from Ft Mac.
- Jim Taylor - Arlington, TX - Comment: How can I find out, I have had issues but no one knows what from. Can this be a cause?
- Kenneth Leady - Mesquite, TX - Comment: Looking for pics of May 1978 Charlie Company. Please email me if you have any. Thank you! firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Jonathan King - Houston, TX
- William Altenreid - Lufkin, TX - Comment: B787/a795.... 1990-1991 too many problems that ive been having to list all but heres a few....memory lapses,blackouts,bipolar,schytophrania,90% of my teeth are gone,muscle twitches and tremmors,enlarged heart,joint pain,rashes,numbness in feet and hands,migrains.....the list goes on and on....thats not including two of my kids and possibly my grand child.
- LeAnne Thornton - Midland, TX
- Troy Reynolds - Spring, TX - Comment: Tumor removed, outer left chest wall; tumor removed, hard palate; tumor removed, left ear; now allergic to pretty much all antibiotics; unexplained fevers with no other symptoms; might have found another abnormal growth above teeth yesterday.
- Carllo J. Cavanagh - Gilmer, TX - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan in 1980-1981 for basic training and for my A.I.T. training .I was in echo company.My drill Sgt.was,Bruckner.I am on ssi disability for lower back pain,bad joints and now my teeth are breaking off and I am now getting really screwed up rashes.Thank you so much for your time sincerely,Carllo j cavanagh
- Bobbye L. Henderson - Arlington, TX - Comment: Did basic training at Fort McClellan - November
1974 thru February 1975. While there I came down with a severe sore throat,
upper respiratory infection and strange measle-like rash (determined not to be
the measles). Was admitted to the base hospital for three days and given
Since that time have had many of the same symptoms as others on this site. Some of my symptoms are: severe migraines, joint pain, gallbladder removed, several large lipomas, numbness in legs and hands, severe leg pain, difficulty walking, memory and concentration problems, and depression. Was diagnosed with MS at the age of 54. Toxic exposure would explain many things.
- Timothy Grant Page - The Colony, TX - Comment: I have begged doctors for help they treat me as if I am crazy and some have eluded to such with sarcastic comments I.e. I would keep that to my self.I have chronic pain in my spine,joints and tendons my right arm has caved in above my elbow my spine spasms between my shoulder blades and radiates through to my chest for days at a time with no relief .rashes on my chest and stomach intestinal issues that double me over and jittery nerve spells that come and go without warning numbness in my hands and fingers that is numb but pain at the same time.to many to list with no explanation.for years I powered through the fatigue and pain but now it is so bad I am unable to work .I want my life back.dose this sound like you.forgotten and soon to be gone.
- Valerie A. (Hill) Barbeau - Round Rock, TX - Comment: I suffer from too many things to list. Plz our reps up in Washington help us.
- Curtis Meloy - Nash, TX - Comment: I went through OSUT training at Ft. McClellan Nov 1979 - Feb 1980 Military Police, not sure if I've been effected or not but want my name included in case something comes up later
- Kelly Griffith - Lubbock, TX - Comment: Please help us vets with our health problems now.
- Samuel Edward Ray, Jr. - Waco, TX - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan from 22 Nov 76 to 7 Feb 77 @ the MP School. I need my name added to the list and I have several medical issues since training at that post.
- Richard Ware - Houston, TX - Comment: List of Ailments: Enlarged Aeorta in my heart, Chronic Nerve Damage in my back, degenerative disc disorder in my back, herniated disc in my back, sciatic nerve, frequent migranes, swollen testicles, severe gout n athritis throughout my body.
- James (Scotty) Scott II - Cedar Park, TX
- Shirley A. Hinch - Killeen, TX - Comment: Basic Training April-June 1974. Teeth started crumblin and repeated abcessess. All teeth removed at my cost in 1980. Diagnosed with Asthma in 1980. Lungs burn when weather changes. Recent skin problems in ears, hands and elbows.
- David Clawson - Thorndale, TX - Comment: I was at Ft McClellan in 1977 & 78. While there I frequently had rashes to exposed skin and was told it was poison ivy. Approximately 10 years later I began having urinary problems and was later diagnosed with BPH and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I also have an unexplained growth on my femur and recently was diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Non of these are common ailments in my family and I had no explanation for them until I learned to the toxic exposure at Ft McClellan.
- Rebecca Sanford, RN, BSN - Texarkana, TX - Comment: Womans Army Basic Training, 1975-1975 at FMC.
Charming Charlie Company. First WAC Basic Training group to crawl in the dirt,
run obstacle course and fire M-16's. Hospitalized at FMC during Basic for
"Mumps". Hospitalized 1975 at Ft. Jackson, SC / AIT for
"Mumps". Hospitalized at Duty Station / Mannheim, Germany...
"Mumps / Upper Respiratiory". Now 59. Chronic autoimmume issues.
Chronic B12 and D3 deficiencies. Chronic Respiratory Problems (Development of
"asthmatic bronchitis and Reactive Airway Disease symptoms") ongoing
since 1976 after Honorable Discharge. Fibroid Tumor at age 19. Endometriosis
with hysterectomy at 30 yrs. DJD. Chronic headaches, chronic pain, depression /
anxiety / insomnia. Osteopenia. Teeth are fracturing and needing crowns.
Currently under treatment ... again for Pneumonia. (So far this year:
Respiratory Infection et: Nov 2014, Dec 2014, Jan 2015, Feb 2015.... now March 2015.
Enlisted with my Bestie. She is battling Breast Cancer. Husband is Gulf War
Vet. Placing on Registry. Son is OIF Purple Heart/100% disabled from combat.
me: Rebecca Sanford RN, BSN firstname.lastname@example.com
- Michael Meritt - Salado, TX - Comment: Originally from Chicago, IL. Enlisted September 1979 to Ft McClellan, AL. Sept 79/Dec 79 Basic & MP School.
- Frank See - Mesquite, TX
- Lloyd A. Williams - San Antonio, TX - Comment: MP OSUT A-11 Jan-April 1980, Co A USAMPS April 1980-Dec 1982
- James Powell - Killeen, TX - Comment: MP OSUT at Fort McClellan Jan 1991-Jun 1991, C Co., 787th MP Bn.
- Richard Cooksey - Elkhart, TX
- Barry Yates - San Antonio, TX
- Jonathan Mashburn - Fort Worth, TX
- Name Withheld - El Paso, TX
- Debrah Mulnix Herron - Jonesboro, TX - Comment: I was at Fort McClellan in June of '74 for my Basic. I have lots of pictures of my time there. I had my 19 B-Day there. I am now 58. I have asthma and COPD and have never smoked a day in my life. I also have high blood pressure.
- Michael Racy - Fort Worth, TX
- Jon Christensen - Arlington, TX
- Jim Jones - Bridge City, TX
- Wilma Delaunay - Harlingen, TX - Comment: Have suffered from RA for many years, had total knee replacements, 4 major back surgeries. Became totally disabled at age 55.
- Eric Murillo - San Antonio, TX - Comment: Trained at McClellan in summer 94 and 95. Later at Ft. Bliss w/ 369th Chemical Co. I was a split 54B at Ft. McClellan in the summer of 95/95. Currently I suffer from memory loss, osteoarthritis and chronic pain (among others). If you were there during those summers, please send me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com - Dragon Soldier.
- David Maddox - Leander, TX - comment: Please help us.
- Carol Shoemaker - El Paso, TX - Comment: I served at Ft. McClellan twice. First time, Basic, Co. D and then the Clerical Training Company (AIT) I noticed have chills and fever. I got out in 1967 and my daughter was born in 1968 and she has had multiple miscarriages, only one brought to term who died within a few hours. Though she has not been tested, I believe she is manic-depressive or bi-polar. I served again between 78-80 and took my basic at Ft McClellan. When I got out, I noticed in 1983 I began having vertigo and then my head shaking (distonia). I fell on my back while marching and had to be admitted at the hospital in nuremberg where I was diagnosed with SCIATICA and later given a permanent profile. I now have neuropathy in both my feet and hands
- Jeanne M. Neel (Murphy) - Frisco, TX - Comment: I have had so many health issues since I have been honorably discharged from the WAC that HR 2052 is of great interest. I was stationed at Fort McClellan at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973 for basic training.
- Michael - Los Fresnos, TX - Comment: I have developed a skin condition that many say looks like exposure to agent orange. This skin condition started approximately in the 80's and has gotten worse over the years.
- Sonia Roberts - Laredo, TX - Comment: To say that I was stunned upon learning in January 2014 of the chemical toxic exposure that we veterans have been subjected to is an understatement. My health care issues began for me at Fort McClellan during Officer Basic in the third week of training. I'd arrived April 1977. I can recall the nausea, the persistent headaches and respiratory issues. The leg and foot pain just to name some of the issues there. Since then over the years, I've lived plagued with migraines, depression, anxiety, went through a miscarriage in the 80's, osteoporosis, degenerative disks and more. Our military men and women, deserve better from our government. "We all raised our hand to protect and defend...". Veterans and their families need the response of the government now. Too many have died waiting. It is time for Congress to act on H.R.411
- Josef Wells, Jr. - Witchita Falls, TX - Comment: This is a list of the presents FMC left me: Coronary Artery Disease Treatment with Stent, Cervical Radiculopathy, Diabetes Mellitus, Gastroparesis, Hyperlipidemia, Nephrolithiasis, Vitamin D Deficiency, Hyperuricemia, and few others. None of which VA is willing to treat even though they are the ones that diagnosed these presents, almost all of which just showed up in the last 2 years.
- Scott Garner - Austin, TX - Comment: Delta 795th 3rd PLT 8/87 to 12/87.
- Timothy Mericle, Killeen, TX - Comment: Just found this and I am interested to know if the current problems I am having are connected. I was OSUT for MP school from Sept. 90 to Jan. 91. Something like this might make it easier to get tested through the VA to find out what my exact problem is, and get treatment.
- Carl Fira - Frisco, TX - Comment: I was in Ft McCellan Al. for my MP and AIT Training during March 1979 Thru july of 1979 , I have been sick during and after I ETS in 1982 , I have RA, Hypertension, 3 heart attacks , Diabetes , Depression , on and on , my symptoms started worst in 1989 and has progressed one disease after another , help , what can I do!!
- James H. LaBelle - Humble, TX - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan from 1985 - 1991 at MP School. Went through Live Toxic (Nerve gas) training at Chem School Decoc Bldg. In 2004 I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. Been through it all, major surgery (tumor removed from spine).stem cell transplant and currently weekly treatment. VA wanted to treat me but would rather go to MD Anderson - current employment insurance is covering expenses. Myeloma is casued by exposure to these chemicals - go figure. Has definitely affected my quality of life and job performance.
- Linda Pierce - Nolanville, TX - Comment: Service at Fort McClellan from 25Sep67 to 7Feb68
- Sistered Kay Muhle - Dickens, TX - Comment: I was at Ft. MCCLELLAN in basic training in Nov.
1979 and I have
I took have had slots of unexplained illnesses. I started to have problem in 1982 while stationed in Frankfurt Germany I work up one morning with both hands swelled and spent several weeks in hospital for unknown swelling. Had both hand in slings hook up to over poles for ever time the swelling would go down it would come back. Had to have fluid drained off daily for 3 months had to learn try to use left hand for it was the worse one. Then had a lot of unexplained other ailments. I had to get out of the Army in 1982 for I was gaining weight even though I was dieting and exercising Was told they would not let me tremors.
- Robert Duffey - Austin, TX - Comment: AIT and L5 school 1989; BNCOC 1995; JI 1993
- Kathleen Nation - Lewisville, TX - Comment: Fibromyalgia, Migraines, IBS, DDD, Dental issues, MDD, Tinnitus.
- Paula Joy Wyse Kindred - Plano, TX
- Kerry Welch - Temple, TX
- Joe L. Covington - Floydada, TX - Comment: Have had unexplained blood in my urine for years and years, numbness and swelling in my right arm and hand and elbow, skin problems, infections in my leg and stomach that have no explanation, depression, chronic joint pain, kidney stones, ,,,,,,,FT. McClellan, Feb 1982, Basic, AIT,,,Military Police school
- David J. Gandal - Friendswood, TX - Comment: Hernias, repeated surgeries
Hives - so bad I nearly suffocated from swelling in my throat.
Nerve pain in feet and legs, shooting to groin
Vocal Polyps, needing surgery
Diabetes Type II
Bone Loss In Jaw, loss several lower teeth
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Charlie Baldridge - Houston, TX - Comment: I can't believe that I am finding that I'm not some kind of nut and someone with the weirdest health. I have DDD, I had lost 4 inches by the time I was fifty. Fibromylgia, both knees and shoulders that need to be replaced but not a good canidate for surgery. Have had AIT's, a Cardiac eposode (unexplained), full dentures by 60 my teeth would break off without cavities. Local medication to numb an area takes three to four times the normal ammount and if it takes more than 20 minutes to do what ever proceedure they have to give me that much more. Had so many fibrous tumors in the uterus they had to remove it at 32. Have had penumonia so many times I've lost tract, had blatter relocation surgery twice. Have had problems sleeping and/or staying asleep for more than two or three hours at a time. Have nerve damage in both arms and hands for years and the last few years have RLS so bad I'm taking medication for Parkinsons, I have to use a wheelchair in home and a electric scooter to go out, have COPD and asthma. I'm sure I'm forgetting things, my memory stinks, and have just been told I now am diabetic. I was hospitalized a couple years ago for fourteen days, seven in ICU and still have no diganosis. I finally told one doctor I was going to keep fighting and nothing short of death was going to stop me, and maybe not then because the good Lord willing I was coming to haunt some folks. He laughed and said he was surprised I am able to do as much as I do. Not something you want to hear from your doctor. Now I've been assigned a new primary and my hackles are up after seeing her one time, I was treated like some kind of doper because I asked for something for pain, I have cellulitus in one leg very bad and am taking two antibotics for it. It was swollen and beet red she really ticked me off, thankfully my daughter was with me and told her I had not had any pain medication for over three months so she relented and gave me Ultram, enough for ten days, but ordered labs including a drug panel.
- Aaron M. Davis - Herriman, UT - Comment: Stationed at McClellan in 1981 and 1985. Anxiety, depression, gouty arthritis.
- Brad Hardinger - Salt Lake City, UT - Comment: Undiagnosed neurological disorder.
- Sharon Stiles Shiner - Stansbury Park, UT - Comment: Fibromyalgia, migraines, anxiety, depression, IBS. Also first born child was born with GERD which resulted in 2 lifesaving operations for failure to thrive. I never thought a decision to serve my country (which I still do not regret) would have such a profound impact on not only my quality of life but the lives of my loved ones.
- Martha Arnold Howe - Randolph, Vermont - Comment: Joined as Arnold married 1966 became Howe WAC Dec 1965-Feb 1967 !st Pregnancy Fetal Death 1967 2nd Pregnancy ok 3rd Pregnancy handicapped till age 15 Juvenile Melanoma age 8 Multiple allergies 4th Pregnancy aborted fetus 4 1/2 months
Cervical Cancer (me) 1980 surgery 1981. Dx: fibromyalgia, type 2 diabetes, myofascial pain syndrome, and spondylitis of the spine
- Lynn Hayward Bisbee - Leicester, VT - Comment: Health issues since Ft. McClellan: miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, hysterectomy, foot problems (Morton's neuroman), severe allergies, arthritis, degenerative disc disorder, hyperthyroid, Hashimoto's disease, thyroid cancer, thyroidectomy, I-131 treatment for thyroid cancer 2x, advanced stage invasive ductal breast cancer, bilateral mastectomy, 38 rounds of radiation for breast cancer, 6 rounds of chemotherapy, sleep apnea, etc
- Laura Capsey - Franklin, VT - Comment: Degenerative Disc Disease, Sarcoidosis (auto immune disease) affecting skin, muscles and lungs, arthritis, neuropathy in hands and feet, chronic pain, memory loss, unexplained cartilage literally falling off bone (delamination), sudden (10 lumps within 2 weeks) onset of lipomas in both arms. 2 surgically removed to biopsy, plus 1 in breast. sudden onset (24 lumps within a couple of weeks) of lumps in both legs, 1 biopsied, which left a hole in my leg for 10 months. Vascular specialist had to treat it to get it to close, venous insufficiency. I did basic training at Fort McClellan in 1982. While I was there both legs swelled so bad I couldn't wear my boots, had to wear sneakers that I could barely lace up. Went to PT daily. Was on no standing profile, not allowed to stand for more than 10 minutes at a time. When I requested my medical records, this was not included.
- Danielle Preston - Fredricksburg, VA - Comment: Military Police Vet of Ft. McClellan - cancer and other health issues
- Barbara Leake-Hill - Louisa, VA - Comment: I have several ilnesses, which the VA says can result from AO. Though I haven't filed a claim yet, I'm still researching trying to gather info. Illnesses include: fibromyalgia, hypoglycemia, miscarraige at 23, hysterectomy at 25, nerve pain in legs, ostioperocis, sciatica, degeneration in spine, depression, hair loss, arthritis entire spine, sleep apnea, long term nightmares, copd, loss of balance
- Vincent Diem - Stephens City, VA - Comment: Basic/AIT MP School (1994-1995); MPI School (1996); within the past six months have been diagnosed with hypertension, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, myasthenia gravis, transverse myelitis, and syringomyelia (which means there is a cyst in my spinal cord). Also, have experienced sudden cognitive impairment issue that specialists at three different university hospitals in the Baltimore/DC area have been unable to explain. I only found out about the Ft. McClellan toxic exposure three days ago by stumbling onto it through the web trying to figure out what's going on with my health.
- Mary W. - Smithfield, VA - Comment: I have had neuropathy for years, spent 6 weeks in hospital in September 2013 and was on life support in ICU.I had a stroke while on the vent. My brachial plexus is also all messed up which causes me all the pain and rash on my left side. Having nerve surgery soon on my left hand. Thumb muscle has atrophied and I am unable to use my left hand. I have had digestive problems since I was in my twenties and had my gall bladder out at age 26. My knees are about to just give out as it is very difficult for me to walk very far. Have had surgery on the left one.
- Julie Earl - Manassas, VA - Comment: I had a miscarriage, have multiple liver hermangiomas, had RML for lung cancer and have a mass in my lower left lung and now 2 thyroid nodules. These do not run in my family.
- Jimmy Campbell - Roanoke, VA - Comment: Jan 94- May 94, basic and AIT at Ft. McClellan. Recently had 10 inches of my small intestines and my appendix removed. Carcinoid Cancer tumors in my intestines and this is probably not the last i will see of it.The doctor said it is a rare cancer and even rarer for a healthy 39 year old man.
- Tim Gibbs - Powhatan, VA - Comment: C795-11/87-3/88
- Robert Lunn - Bristow, VA
- Cheryl Lynn Parker Anderson - Winchester, VA - Comment: WAC Jan-Feb 1974
- Mary Newman - Galax, VA
- Everett Newman - Galax, VA
- Robert Crow - Fredericksburg, VA
- Anna Saldana Koch - Stafford, VA - Comment: Sent to FMC for Basic Training in August of 1990. Having Joint Pain and a small skin condition.
- Matthew A. Stout - Charlottesville, VA
- William Firshing - Leesburg, VA
- Pamela Brown - Virginia Beach, VA
- Brenda Marriott (Roots) - Highland Springs, VA - Comment: I was in Basic Training in FMC in 1973.
- David Ayoub, Jr. - Leesburg, VA - Comment: Assigned to Delta Company 795 Military Police Company 1955.
- Denise Tench Ormsby - Woodbridge, VA - Comment: A10 1/85 to 5/85
- Eddie Sills III - Norfolk, VA - Comment: I have a blood clotting disorder,degenerative disk disease,spinal tenosis,anger,stress,depression,and God knows what else.God said Vengeance is mines.He'll get them back!!!
- Robert Crow - Fredricksburg, VA - Comment: Diagnosed with Graves disease, gout, hypertension and elevated kidney functions
- Norman Glenn Blackburn, Jr. - Richmond, VA
- Cristen Lutz - Mount Jackson, VA
- Alicia M. Clark - Manassas, VA - Comment: I'm having what would be classified as autoimmune symptoms and unspecified chest pain.
- Beth Thompson - Roanoke, VA - Comment: I am in the army national guard in Virginia, part of a chemical crop unit. I attended BIDS school at Fort McClellan two years ago. Last week I was diagnosed with AML, A Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
- Maria Fornes - Woodbridge, VA - Comment: At Ft. McClellan for Basic Training in 1972. Diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma. A form of blood Cancer. Treatment included high dose Chemotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant. The damage to my bones can only be described as massive.Currently on a Clinic Trial medication to suppress the Cancer.
- Mari Jenkins - Suffolk, VA - Comment: I served in both the Army and Marine Corp. I was stationed at Ft. McClellan and Camp Lejeune. I have double the exposure and health problems.. I have had Breast Cancer twice in 10 years..I am currently waiting on a decision on a claim that I have at the VA. I thought all of my health issues came from Lejeune ... Did not see anything on Ft. McClellan until today... Very upset
- Danny Stevens - Danville, VA - Comment: I was stationed at Fort Mcclellan in June 1969 for infantry sit and then I went to the central highlands of Vietnam.I had a double dose of agent orange.I have since been operated on for oral cancer even though I have never smoked, never chewed or dipped tobacco nor have I ever consumed alcohol.Now I am have terrible joint pains in my knees.Somes days it is almost impossible to walk into work.
- Michael Aylward - Leesburg, VA - Comment: Stationed at ft McClellan for basic training and MP school in 1980. Have coronary artery disease (recent angioplasty), degenerative arthritis, plus other less severe issues. Also spent 1 1/2 years at weapons depot in Clausen Germany.
- Shirley Briskey - Yakima, WA
- Sherri Bowen -Washtucna, WA
- George Richeson - Yakima, WA
- Annette S. - Winlock, WA
- Connie McNett - Selah, WA - Comment: WAC training Feb 74 - May 74
- Michael-John Holloway - Mountlake Terrace, WA - Comment: Seneca Army Depot/how contaminated was that area? (Ask the White Deer).
- R.J. Guillory - Lakewood, WA - Comment: Lower back problems with bulging discs.
- Sheldon P. Reynolds - Lakewood, WA
- Private - Kenmore, WA - Comment: I was at MP School in 1975.
- Edward Eldredge - Tacoma, WA - Comment: Basic 1982
- Aaron Moore - Everett, WA - Comment: I am extremely ill and am degrading. I have been
vomiting daily for more than 2 months now and of the 5 civilian Dr.'s I have
seen -none can figure out what is causing it. I have had MRI's, X-Rays,
Ultrasounds, Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, Heavy Metals testing, etc...
All so far have returned negative results and yet the vomiting continues.
My plan was to build a civilian medical case before taking the evidence to the VA, which I have never gone to once since my ETS in 1996, however it is quickly becoming too costly out of pocket to continue on that path.
Exposure is definite as I distinctly remember laying next to an open Dioxin barrel on a Big Baines march -as well as suffered other medical issues while at Ft. McClellan. Whether it was due to that exposure, The PCB's, TCE's or other Chemicals I was exposed to I do not yet know.
But exposure was 100% for sure -at least to Dioxin.
I was at B 795 MP Bn from Fall of '93 through Spring of '94.
Further details will be provided upon request.
Thank You.
- Pvt. Dink (Kurt) - Seattle, WA -
- Christine Bates - Renton, WA - Comment: I was treated while still in the military for cervical dysplasia, and even called back days after discharge for more treatment. I was also treated for a tumor that developed in a breast, and I was only 19 years old. I also tested positive for Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 19. Nobody has this much happen to them all at once, at such a young age, without some extenuating circumstances. I would have been nice for the VA to have been able to look at me, instead of struggling on my own over the past 30 years.
- Jeff Moser - Marysville, WA - Comment: MP Basic Aug 96 - Feb 97
- Karen Damron - Graham, WA - Comment: I have had many kidney infections, stones. As of 4/2011, I have lost kidney function. Left is 39 percent, right is 60 percent. I also had to have a hysterectomy in 1980 at age 24 because of pre cervical cancer. There is no family history of kidney problems or any cancers. Right now I'm having stomach problems. My GI Dr. Thinks there might be an obstruction in small intestine. All food that I eat causes a lot of pain about 2hrs after eating. I am drawing my SS because of my kidneys. I have been trying to get a VA pension since 1985. We just found out about the toxic issues with Ft. McClellan
- Frances Macaraig - Bremerton, WA
- Sharon Waller-McMullen - Lynnwood, WA - Comment: WAC Basic Training 1973. C-3-2 graduated 3Jul73
- Lori E. Morgan - Pasco, WA - Comment: Basic training 13Feb1976 - 15Apr1976. I now have: Fibromyalgia, peripheral neuropathy, multiple allergies (over 90"% developed after service), and many other health problems. 20% service connected for Chondromalacia patella (both knees.)
- Sara Chacon - Tacoma, WA - Comment: Basic and AIT Sep 1997 - Feb 1998
- Francis Sherwood Macaraig - Bremerton, WA - Comment: Thank you for this forum. Was stationed at Ft Mac in 1977. Had so many issues, (gestational Diabetes, infertility, Chronic migraine, osteoporosis, skin cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, arthritis, irritable bowl,colon polyps, TMJ and the list goes on and on. Any help or info with this will be appreciated. This is a travesty that the congress wont even pass this bill for Vets. Such a shame considering all the military does for this country.
- Annette Kowalski - Vancouver, WA - Comment: I'm originally from Pennsylvania and joined the
Army under the delayed entry program. I was stationed at Ft McClellan for Basic
and AIT in 1981 and again for Military Police Investigator training in 1985.
Over the years, I have had dealt with anemia, numerous gynecological symptoms, asthma, sinus problems, multiple chemical sensitivities and other health problems. I recently found your site and am relieved to know that it's "not all in my head" and that I am NOT alone.
I will be meeting with a Veterans Rep this week to seek advice and go from there.
Thank you for compiling all this helpful information in one place. Hopefully, we will get the medical help so many of us have been denied.
- Antonio Leverette - Tacoma, WA
- David Kuntze - Spanaway, WA - Comment: Did AIT at McClellan in 1976. Also various schools throughout my career to include BNOC, ANOC, PSI and MPI.
- Karen M. (Willard) Burgh - Gig Harbor, WA - Comment: I was stationed at FMC for basic and Chemical AIT July to Dec 1988
- Patricia McIntyre - Tacoma, WA - Comment: Basic & AIT, Feb-April 1971. Had issues with hyperthyroid and treatment, on medication for it for life. Other issues like continued sinus problems that have appeared, no family history of either
- Katheline Larsen (Callan) - Colville, WA - Comment: Thought it was just me. I have degenerative joint disease. Dislocated my shoulder joint, the joint would not heal ended up with total shoulder replacement, doctors had no idea why my body dissolved all the cartilage in 90 days, have had 8 additional surgeries and another shoulder replacement a couple of months ago. As far as female issues go don't get me started. Yes on miscarriages.
- Don Williams - Seattle, WA
- John Navin - Lake Stevens, WA - Comment: Served OUST 1979 Feb to 1979 Jun, D Co 12th MP Bn.
- Gary Lease - Union Gap, WA
- Evelyn Rowland - Olympia, WA - Comment: WAC basic training fall of 1972. Have Fibro, Decrums, PN, multiple allergies, Eczema, asthma and now a mass on my thyroid.
- A. Fawn McKenzie - Wenatchee, WA - Comment: MP OSUT - Mar 1985 - Aug 1985, Numerous Health Issues.
- SFC (RET) David T. Henry - Tacoma, WA - Comment: Stationed at Fort McClellan 1980-1981 for basic chemical school and 1985 to 1986 Advance Chemical School.
- Sharon Ann Blevins-Pilgrim - Washington, WA - Comment: I was stationed at Ft McClellan in 1967. I had several miscarriages before (and between) having my children and had a hysterrectomy at age 27.. My youngest daughter has a son who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, oral apraxia and retardation. Her older son is diagnosed as mildly retarded and learning disabled. We used to play in a creek when I was stationed there and swung into it on a rope swing.
- Kevin Johnson - Seattle, WA - Comment: Ft Mac 1990-1991. MP School
- Name Withheld - Spokane, WA - Comment: Officer Chem School 1998 - NUMEROUS health issues -- mainly thyroid and cysts all over my body but too
much to type.
Thank you for what you are doing....although I have no hope of receiving help -- and am discouraged by the medical system to push the mental health route for legitimate physical symptoms -- hell could freeze over and this could bring justice to those who have been exposed.
- Harry (Joe) Fithian - Sammamish, WA - Comment: F-12 Military Police May - Sept. 1985. 13 surgeries due to degeneration of joints. Dr.'s have been unable to confirm any medical diagnosis. Go to bed and wake up with a torn rotator cuff. Go to bed wake up with torn flexor tendon in elbow. (again 6 mos later in other elbow). And the list goes on and on. Just found this web page and will bring it up next time I see a Dr
- Brad Bowman - Vancouver, WA - Comment: Went through MP school in 1991.
- Stephen Nazarchyk - Vancouver, WA - Comment: Currently I am 37 years old, attended 74D OSUT trainging in 1998. I was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2009. 90% of all bladder cancers happen after the age of 50. It took the doctors a few years to figure out what was wrong with me. Now I have a neurology appointment because I am losing strength in my hands, as well as sharp pain in my hands. It will be interesting to see how long this will take them to diagnose. So far the docs I have seen say they have no clue. I also had my appendix removed due to an abnormal shape the same time they did my bladder cancer surgery.
West Virginia
- Charles G. Walls - Man, WV - Comment: I did basic and AIT training at the 10th MP Battalion (OUST), MP School from Nov. 1977 to April 1978. In 2002 I was diagnosed with type II diabetes.
- Thomas Shull - Bridgeport, WV - Comment: I did basic and AIT there C-40. Drill SFC White / Drill Sgt. Dixon.
- Robert Gray - Berkeley Springs, WV
- Mike Greathouse - Newton, WV
- David B. Kittle - Fairmont, WV - Comment: Basic/AIT C-40-2 (89-90) MP School. DS SFC M. Daoust, DS SSG A. Romero, DS SSG C. Williams. Last cycle for C Company.
- William E. Knepper, SSG Retired - Gerrardstown, WV - Comment: Almost 7 years at Fort McClellan, AL.
- Keith Butcher - Paden City, WV - Comment: I served at FMC from Jan to May 1985 for BT and MP AIT OSUT. I am 80% Service Connected for a myriad of things.
- Elizabeth Kerns - Kanawha, WV - Comment: Basic Training 1978
- Kristie M. (Miller) Long - Keyser, WV
- Brian Ballengee - Athens, WV
- Randy L. Hardman - Buckhannon, WV
- Gary Rice - Fairmont, WV
- Heidi Rice - Keyser, WV
Edward Augustine - Marathon, WI - Comment:
Stationed at Ft McClellan, AL in 1985. Since than due to toxic exposure, suffer from Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Polyneuropathy, Small Fiber Neuropathy, Osteoarthritis, Raynauds Disease, Irritable Bowel syndrome, Dengerative Disk Disease, Migraines, Carpal Tunnel syndrome, and unexplained insufficiency fractures in both ribs and hip, along with vision problems. As is familiar with many veterans that have served there doctors have no knowledge or idea why. We are not Aliens. How can I (with all these problems) dismiss the fact that all can be caused by toxins at Ft McClellan, AL. The facts are there, blind eye, means you have no compassion for others, WOW. I challenge you'se to educate yourselves, don't be ignorant. Blinded are those, whom believe in others, without finding out the truth, for themselves. Guess I am a few, that choose, not to be ignorant and do the right thing.
Erik Barstow - Dresser, WI - Comment: I was stationed there for Military Police school at the Marine Corps Detachment in 1998 for almost 5 months. I have experienced weird symptoms since 2000. I assumed they were from the fires that were on base at Camp Pendleton. They treated me for my asthma like symptoms which end up in throwing up gagging like reflex. This effects me when there is temperature change in the air or performing labor type tasks. I used to love to run. Now there just is no way with out this happening. I have also experienced the intense IBS for a year. VA found no reason why that was happening, Last summer I was wheeled chaired because of a strange flare up in my right foot. The entire foot turned purple and doubled in size. Now I have nerve damage in my right foot. The infectious disease unit at the VA has no idea why this happened and why I have these strange symptoms. I am so grateful for this site. Thank you. I am filing stuff with my CVSO and lawyer who has represented my VA Appeals since 2004. I have pictures of my foot that would freak anybody out. Very painful. It attacked my sciatic nerve up to my upper back. Worst pain I have ever been in. I was able to walk after 3 months on my own two feet with assistance. It's been over a year now and they have no idea. I told the doctor about this chemical exposure problem
- Dan Stoiber - Spencer, WI - Comment: Started in early 20's sarcodosis lungs shingles degenative disk disease. Some nice blisters/sores on feet. Now in 40's joints feel like my fellow ww2 legionares . What happened??. Too young for this /list etc...
- Donita Jones - Oshkosh, WI - Comment: I was at Ft. Mac in 1974 for Basic Training. Shortly after leaving there I became pregnant with my first child. She has one eye that didn't fully developed, has migraines and has a son that has autism. All of my 3 kids suffer from migraines as do I. I lost a set of twins due to a blocked filopian tube and had a hysterectomy at the age of 37 due to because of systs on my overies and a condition called stressincontinence. It's a condition where the connective tissue that holds the bladder up, weakens and the bladder falls onto the uterus which disconnected and everything was down in my pelvis. The dr said it took over 200 staples to reattach my bladder. I have a weak bladder with irritable bowel syndorm, as well as arthritis, thinning bones and am in constant pain. I've also had a rare occurance with my eyes. I had cataracts on both eyes and after the lenses were replaced, they discovered that the membranes behind the eyes that they normally leave alone also had cataracts and had to have lasek to punch through to let the light in. I've only recently heard about the Ft. Mac illness and will be getting checked out soon. I probably won't go to my VA dr, even though I really like here. I have civilian insurance and will be finding a dr that I can explain all this to and be able to get an unbias opinion.
- Paul Gunness - Menomonie, WI - Comment: Was at FMC from June 1981 throught September 1981. The known harmful chemicals and toxic dump situation is appalling.
- Sindy Lancaster - Waukesha, WI - Comment: Recently experienced respiratory problems. VA Diagnosed it as severe respiratory infection. I attended basic training at FMC in 1976.
- David Staszak - Oak Creek, WI - Comment: Stationed at FMC in 1978. Many of the same unexplainable, unusual illnesses as others. Have seen specialist after specialist without any answer.
- Tammy (Wehrman) Dunow - Marshfield, WI - Comment: I went to Basic there in 1985
- Chad Pittsley - Racine, WI
- Troy Badtke - Malone, WI
- Amy Mehling - Ripon, WI - Comment: I was at Ft. McClellan, in 93, for the customary
MP basic and AIT. Since that time I have had a growing list of health issues
and, like many others on this list, am seeing the horrible similarities here. I
didn't know at the time but my issues began with psoriasis, which is an
auto-immune disease. Since then I have had the following issues/diagnosis. I
will do my best to hit them all. Cervical cancer (age 19), severe endometriosis
(up to age 26), total hysterectomy (age 26), dental issues, joint issues,
deteriorating disc disease, several auto-immune diseases, fibromyalgia,
Sjögren's syndrome, Raynauds phenomenon, severe migraines and light
sensitivity, idiopathic peripheral neuropathy, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid
arthritis and those are the primary ones I am remembering right now. Obviously
memory is an issue here also, either from all the medication that I have to be
on just to control my body or it is from my time at Mc.
I think my state reps are sick of hearing from me but there is only one way to get me to stop. Stop with the cutesy form email response and actually do something about this issue!
We served our country so you could be elected to the position you have so how about you do something for us now!
- Michelle L. Bastian - Green Bay, WI - Comment: = I want to thank Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY) who is our Tom Daschle...doggedly trying again and again to pass legislation so that the country we served will do the right thing and follow the court order and provide us the medical care we need and deserve and should have been receiving DECADES AGO! This is a true scandal that should be rocking the nation, but instead a bunch of clowns with big RED noses are playing obstructionist games instead of keeping promises to veterans. Republicans loudly proclaim themselves the pro-military party yet HUNDREDS of them co-sponsored a bill in favor of mandatory vaginal ultrasounds but only a couple have signed on to HR 411. When it comes to ACTION for veterans it's always the Democrats leading the way. Isn't THIS something both parties can agree on? It's the right thing to do, and those of us out here dying don't really care if it cuts down on someone's corporate welfare! THEY'RE RICH ENOUGH!
- Debra Tinlin - Bonduel, WI - Comment: Diagnosed with MS, fibromyalgia, sjogrens syndrome, chronic back pain an others
- Jacquelynn Franklin - Medford, WI - Comment: 2 years after leaving Camp McClellan, The Army discovered I had endometrial cancer (theyfound it when I was 6 months pregnant). I was 20 years old. As soon as my son was born, I had to have a hysterectomy (As a result I am now a Service Connected Disabled Vet for "loss of use of a creative organ").
I am now 52, and for the last 30 years I have battled joint pain, compressed disc's (I am 3 inches shorter than I was 10 years ago). I have Fibromyalgia (complained of symptoms for 20 years before I was diagnosed), I have neuropathy, and about 10 other things wrong with me. I am on approx. 30 pills a day including a permanent prescription of Vicoden 10MG...my Dr said the next step is to put me on morphine pills....
- Spaulding - Tomahawk, WI - Comment: The VA here has never heard of Fort McClellan and when I do actually go in, I am told 'You look ok. If it hasnt killed you yet, there is nothing I can do.' Bleeding bumps on legs at night, half my cervix taken out, drinking water like there is no tomorrow...for years...among other things. I was lifting and body building prior
- Terri Jo Eyestone - Appleton, WI - Comment: I was stationed at Ft. McClellan for basic and AIT for military police training from October 1984 thru February 1985. During my training I suffered from an upper respiratory infection and was hospitalized for several days. Because of this it put me behind in my training and I had to complete my AIT with another unit. Since this I have suffered from a chronic cough for about the last 25 years, no treatments have been successful in eliminating this cough. Sometimes it gets so severe that I have to throw up and often it hinders me from attending social events because of the embarssment of the uncontrollable coughing. Last year, on April 10, 2013 I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy followed by chemotherapy (which I am still having every three weeks until August, 2014) and also 30 treatments of radiation. I can't help but wonder if all of these medical problems might be a direct result of my service at Ft. McClellan.
- Jessica (Huss) Lardin - Sheboygan, WI - Comment: I was stationed at Fort McClellan from January 19, 1999 to May 21,1999 for Basic Training and AIT. I was in the last class to go through Bravo Company (MP) prior to the base closing. I can't be sure my issues are related to my stay there, but my symptoms began during or after my stay there. While I was there I had issues with my scalp that I thought came from wearing my hair up all the time. Several of us girls had problems, I recall trying different shampoos for dandruff and we got in trouble for sleeping with our hair down because our hair could never fully dry when it was up all the time. By the time I graduated I had large raw sores on my scalp and was experiencing hair loss in clumps. Since then I continue to have severe scalp and skin issues. I have gone to several dermatologists and no one has been able to help. My face is red, burns, flakes, and peels. I also recall having many ear infections and one terrible case of pneumonia that had me on bed rest for 3 days. In 2011 it was noticed in a chest scan that I have a nodule in my left lung. The doctor's I have seen have not identified what it is (it could be a cyst, or scar tissue,) but I have chest scans every 6 months to monitor it for changes. They seem genuinely concerned about it. The worst issues is with my reproductive system. After completing basic training my cycle became very irregular and finally absent. I have large cysts on my ovaries and it was very difficult for us to have a family. I suffered 3 miscarriages, and my daughter was born 15 weeks pre-term weighing only 1 lb 14 oz. She is now four years old and my doctors still cannot explain what caused her early arrival other than my unstable hormone levels. She is almost legally blind and has cerebral palsy. As I said, these issues may not be from my time spent at Fort McClellan, but most of my issues started within a year or two after completing training. It breaks my heart that we were allowed to train at this fort when the risks were known 40 years prior my time there. This information was learned 20 years before I was born and because it was overlooked I may be paying the price, as well as my daughter. I can only hope this is the end of our story, but who really knows what else could be in store for us.
- Lori K. Burnham - Oconomowoc, WI - Comment: I suffer from Neuropathy (Myositis), Memory Loss, Blurred & Changing Vision, Headaches, Ischemic Coalitis, Heart Disease, Asthma, Arthritis, Unknown Skin Condition, Swollen Arms & Legs, Endometriosis & Total Hysterectomy at 30 yoa, depression, pre-osteoporotic, tremors, ringing in ears, might not be all but it's all I can currently recall
- Colin Isom - Shawano, WI - Comment: Military Police Basic & AIT, Summer 1994- D787 and Smmer 1995- B295.
- C.H. Eastman - Allouez, WI - Comment: I have been called "just depressed", "menopausal" because I had an early life hysterectomy, and finally when someone tested me the real diagnoses started FLYING in: MS, CFIDS, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Degenerative Disk Disease, Spondylosis throughout my back, IBS, Barrett's Esophagitis, Macular Degeneration, Uncontrolled BP (it goes very high and very low for no apparent reason), and the list goes on) and yes NOW I am somewhat depressed because daily pain is a DRAG! Having a CAUSE is helpful though and my cause is US!
Multi-national corporate giant and shameless polluter MONSANTO, which also owns BLACKWATER Military Contractors (also known as Xe--major profiteers during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) is still making $billions if not more from the US in no bid contracts despite what they did to the "official" Agent Orange vets and despite the continuing suffering of Fort McClellan vets and their families exposed along with the citizens of Anniston to the chemical components from which Agent Orange and other Monsanto products were/are made. Monsanto was sued for damages by Anniston, Alabama when evidence surfaced that corporate officials knowingly allowed storage of toxins in open pits and dumped huge amounts of toxins into the area's water supply--for decades. Still, Monsanto managed to get the sweetheart deal of the CENTURY when it was somehow decided military members and their families would be left out of the settlement when Monsanto brought its full power forward in a hard and long fought court battle against a tiny little Alabama town, a court battle Monsanto LOST! Common sense will tell you that Anniston did not win that lawsuit against Monsanto because Monsanto couldn't afford good enough lawyers or pay off enough "experts" to represent their interests. Clearly the cause and effect and gross damage to human life and health had to be so plainly obvious as to render all that corporate power and influence utterly impotent, which is almost unthinkable in this day and age where might makes right no matter what side of the political spectrum you stand upon. Yet the VA insists, wrongly, that, "no proof of cause and effect exists." YES IT DOES. And it is now a matter of public judicial record in Anniston vs Monsanto! It's time for the VA to stop sweeping us and our children (the ones we didn't miscarry--the ones we had before our early in life hysterectomies and all the other health issues) the ones--so many of whom as sick too--under the rug and denying our existence. The VA played this same game with Lejeune. We all need to stand, or roll our wheelchairs together and tell them, GAME OVER!
- AnnaMaria Bliven - Blanchardville, WI - Comment: I had several ah ha moments as I read through comments on this page and on Facebook. I too have had multiple miscarriages, tumors, diabetes, arthritis, bronchitis, anxiety, memory loss, hair loss, and most recently, thyroid (large) nodules (one on either side of my thyroid...they are being biopsied next week). If it turns out to be cancerous I will know why. This is uppalliing that HR 144 cannot be passed and the Desert Shield/Desert Storm Burning Pit HR did. We Fort Mac survivors (or sick and dying) were exposed to far more dangerous toxins: Agent Orange, Agent Blue, Sarin, VX, uranium, and PCBs from the Monsanto plant. We need HR 411 more now than ever!
- John Cahill - Prairie du Sac, WI - Comment: I was at fort mac for basic and AIT from Aug1980 to Jan 1981. I just talked to a coworker who served and trained there as well. He told me about the issues at fort Mac and things started to make sense with some medical issues. Going to the doctor and being told we don't know whats wrong with you. I plan on making some phone calls to the legislature and some lobbyist, we need to get this bill passed.
- Lisa P. - Neenah, WI - Comment: Last name withheld but Taxes and voting as a Wisconsin resident. I am active duty military still. Diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2007 and tested positive with auto immune lupus without aggressive symptoms and gluten intolerance. OSIT at McClelland 1987 and stationed there from June 1994-April 1997.
- Lisa Pitzer - Woodman, WI - Comment: I am a 46 year old Ft McClellan veteran. I have several health issues with unknown origins. After finding out from a fellow Ft. McClellan veteran about all of the toxins we were exposed to, I wonder if that is the cause of my health problems. No one in my family history has any of the heath problems I have. Shame on the US Government for ignoring those veterans that were stationed at Ft McClellan and exposed to all of these toxins. Does not suprise me though as the US government has always pretty much neglected veterans except when they need rhem to defend our country. God Bless America and our Veterans!
- Thomas Briggs - Wausau, WI - Comment: Went thru Basic AIT 85 A-12
- Lisa Adams - Portage, WI
- Monnette Cooley-Thomas - Milwaukee, WI
- Horace Milligan, Jr. - Colgate, WI - Comment: Too many issues to list. Have contacted every possible official, canned response if any. Really sad.
- Donald Hayden - Milwaukee, WI
- Robert Escher - Nashotah, WI - Comment: Although I am 100% service connected disabled, served in Vietnam Nam, Okinawa ( yes we had chemicals there too) and was at FtMac for MP school in 77 I ( so far) don't have any of the issues from these chemicals but I can describe seeing them used in Nam and on Okinawa as defoliant. I also helped escort them off Okinawa in 1971 to be shipped off to Johnston island and yes Okinawa had a variety of chemicals including ricin, nerve and Agent Orange and of course they deny all of it. Boy they have to take away all the money from other nations and the hand outs just to try and pay everyone disability. I support you guys that have the deaeases in question and I hope at 64 I don't get any but I here and willing to help and support everyone
- Mark Jernigan - Laramie, WY - Comment: Ischemic Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes II, Skin Lesions ...
- Pamela Atkins - Casper, WY
- Joseph P. Thornton - Evanston, WY
- Tami Dickinson - Gillette, WY - Comment: Is help coming. For us.
- Dale Dallman, Jr. - Sheridan, WY - Comment: Was at Fort McClellan for basic, in the "old" barracks from Jan 1987 - Apr 1987.
- Lisa Matthiesen- Powell, WY. Comment: 1989 95B MP Basic/AIT Autoimmune disorders Hashimoto's/graves, migraines to name a few....
- Craig Koehrsen - Riverton, WY - Comment - i was at ft. mccellan in 1983 for basic. in 1997 i developed thyrotoxicosis had to have thyroid oblated with iodine radiation. 2 years later developed type 1 diabetes. dr.s attributed the diabetes directly to the thyroid problems. anything i can do?
- Judy Blackburn - Ten Sleep, WY - Comment: At Ft. McClellan in 1976 for Basic Training. Since then I have had multiple illnesses, suffered 3 miscarriages, developed lower back problems and migraines which continue to this day. In my early thirties I developed a head tremor, High blood pressure and joint problems which have only worsened. I have had a constant rash on my right arm only for ten years that the doctors don't have a consistent diagnosis for. Just recently a cancerous cyst was found in my neck and removed. I also had my thyroid removed to test for cancer. My thyroid was clear of cancer which the doctors say is odd since generally the cancer starts in the thyroid and spreads from there. Also the type of cancer found is associated with exposure to high levels of radiation. Well I wonder where I could have possibly been exposed to radiation like that?
- Debralee (Ballenger) Sturdevant - Sheridan, WY - Comment: Basic training 1973 to 1974. E-10-2. Had two different types of cancer.
- Jon D. Riddle - Casper, WY - Comment: May 1979 thru Sept 1979 and will not be recognized because I was National Guard
- Caryl Hodgman - Madison, WI - Comment: I was trained at Charlie company from Aug. 1978
through November 1978. From there I was stationed at the 111th MP Company, Fort
McClellan, AL for three years. As an MP and just plain curious, I have been all
over the Fort. which has me concerned about what I have come into contact with.
Currently I shake and as the years go by, it is continually is becoming worse. I also have hypoglycemia which seems to be getting worse over the years.