Other Toxic Substances & Fort McClellan: Rep. Paul Tonko backs illness probe

was there for MP school in 77. have issues that are unexplainable, rashes, no not rashes, but Night of the living dead immune reactions that leave me leaching fluids from head to toe, requiring Steroid shots, ointments and regiments to qual. only to have as short break and start again. started at 55. doctors/Dermatologist are like ????? Just wondering if like symptoms are out there. all the Ft Mac sysmptom web sites are BS. so looking for any info.

I went through Basic training and A.I.T. there in 1982. I have looked at a few sites concerning this issue, trying to find out what symptoms the toxins would cause. It all seems very unclear. I had a liver transplant in 2002. The cause was Alpha One Antitrypsin Deficiency.  

In 2006 at the age of 38 I had a heart attack and when the Cardiologist at the ER went into my heart they couldn’t find any clogged arteries nor any cause for the sudden Heart Attack.  I was not using any drugs or any meds that could have caused the attack.  Since the attack I am on monthly pills to maintain the heart condition.  I was station at Fort McClellan in 1986 for basic and advance MP training.  How do I find out more about this issue, I have been trying to find out why I had an attack at such a young age?
John

I attended basic training at Fort McClelland in the summer of 1986.  I am not sick, but have one son with leukemia and one son was born with a clubbed foot.  I was wondering if there are any reports of males passing on potential defects from these exposures.  Also is there any information on exact sites where Soldiers may have been exposed in the 80s?  
Finally, was the drinking water we used at Fort McClelland in 1986 still tainted with PCBs?
 
Thank you for your time 

It is interesting that the family members of the dead and poisoned on Kauai were told it was "a time of war" and the class action law suits were dismissed.  Sick employees of University of Hawaii were told they had work related illness and could apply for Workmans Compensation benefits. Monsanto is still at UH with recently published photos of Monsanto handing a giant $100,000 check to the ag department.
I continue to marvel at the length people will go to further themselves at the expense of others.  As I was getting sicker and sicker with exactly the same weird health problems the vets have suffered, my so called sister and mother (still live in Hawaii) never told me what was going on there.  My so called sister was employed by UH for ten years including during the time UH was fined one of the biggest fines in EPA history for botching the Superfund cleanup and leaving combinations of all the "agents" in a shipping container at the beach for years and years after excavating one gallon and 55 gallon containers from near an irrigation reservoir.  So called sister minimized and dismissed the whole thing as a figment of my immagination. "It's true some people on the ground got ill," she said.  I guess she meant they got dead.  She then stated that she "went up there and talked to some people – everything is fine."  Did she think dead and horribly ill local people would be standing out in the meadows waiting to tell the cute white woman all their business?
This is a predominantly local mixed racial population living in the Wailua Homesteads. The wells are contaminated with no contaminant identified.  The first native Hawaiian woman I contacted told me she had been sick when her husband returned from Vietnam, then unexplained illness in her family who live behind the Sleeping Giant.  She stated that they lock themselves in a room with the TV for days at a time too ill to do anything.  Sounds so familiar.