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Former Colonel Sues Marine Corps Over Camp Lejeune Water Contamination

A veteran who served on the base in the late 50's is Lejeune's 65th male breast cancer victim.

(WASHINGTON D.C. McClatchy) - A man who served at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune for nearly two years in the 1950s has sued the federal government for $16 million, saying poisonous water at the base caused his cancer.

Joel P. Shriberg of Pinehurst, N.C., was diagnosed in 2004 with male breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy on his left breast.

Twentieth Anniversary of Cold-Blooded Murder Passes

Marine Corps Colonel’s murder reported as a suicide, but forensic evidence supports murder and a government cover-up.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Twenty years ago this month, Colonel James Sabow, USMC, answered the telephone in his quarters at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California. “Hello, Colonel Sabow. This is Colonel Sabow.”

These were the last words that Sally Sabow heard her husband speak as she closed the front door of their home to attend an early morning weekday Mass in Santa Ana.

Iraqi Donkey Awaits Better Life in America

Feel-good mobilization can occur on behalf of a donkey while the devastating effects of war on the human population of Iraq are ignored...

(ISTANBUL) - Last week, USA Today ran what was intended to be a heartwarming story about a former U.S. marine colonel’s struggle to “bring home a little four-legged piece of Iraq”:

John Folsom, who was [Iraqi] Camp Taqaddum’s commandant in 2008, hopes to bring Smoke the donkey home to Nebraska to brighten the lives of children whose parents are serving overseas.

Camp Lejeune and Breast Cancer: Not Just a Male Problem Anymore

The Camp Lejeune water supply's smorgasbord of toxins have led to 64 male breast cancer cases; now we learn there is at least one female case also.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - As a nurse in the US Navy during the 1970's, Nancy (Neale) Brown was stationed at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.

Nancy has enjoyed a successful life, but she is lucky; for at a young age, Nancy became a breast cancer survivor.

VA Boosts Process for Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims

Claims will be consolidated at one office that will focus on the contaminated water issues.

(SALEM, Ore.) - McClatchy Newspapers released an important story this week for Marine Corps Camp Lejeune veterans and their families.

The growing amount of public awareness over the dangers of the North Carolina base's water and the fact that Marine Corps' was caught in the falsification of reports of Benzene levels connected to Hadnot Point and the fuel storage there, have led to more questions from public officials.

MCAS El Toro: Evidence Supports Cover-Up of Toxic Deadly Well Contamination

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans” -Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)

(IRVINE, Calif.) - I don’t believe in ghosts. If I ran into one or two, maybe I’d change my mind. The stories of lights in MCAS El Toro’s control tower when the power was cut off in July 1999 may be just someone’s wild imagination, but maybe they're the ghosts of Marines who served on the base and returned to haunt the place.

No question there’s good reasons for haunting the former base.

Orange County Great Park: Preserving El Toro`s Toxic Past

A tale of toxic hangars
Hey OC, check out what you get for your tax dollars...

(IRVINE, Calif.) - It has been announced that plans to destroy the runway at the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine, California are now in reverse.

The entire runway at this old base along with hangars 296 and 297 in a section of the base that formerly contained Marine Wing Support Group-37, will stay right where they are.

Orange County Great Park to use Radium Contaminated Hangar

A radium paint room was a common feature on many military airfields.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - The latest Orange County Great Park plans are to keep the runways and hangars at former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in place to “dramatically reduce costs and speed up the building of Irvine’s Great Park,” according to the Voice of OC.

Former MCAS El Toro is an EPA Superfund site, the base closed in July 1999, and sold at a public auction in 2005.

Female Engagement Team (FET / USMC)

Women can be and often are the most compassionate and successful leaders in the military.

(CLEVELAND) - There is a certain type of woman who joins the U.S. Marine Corps. She is not your average person by any means; but like others who wear the eagle, globe and anchor, she is a person of immense pride and dedication.

Those who are not wash out, there is no Marine Corps for people who only go halfway.

Orange County Great Park Update: Don`t Test Don`t Tell

Our OC beat reporter bangs the drum slowly... "Don't Test Don't Tell, Don't Test Don't Tell..."

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Nothing but one broken promise, one bald-faced lie after another. Can the taxpayers now file for a divorce from Irvine? Haven't we had enough Agran-vation (aggravation), why not refuse to help find the funds for this LENNAR/Agran scam anymore?

As we've tried to point out, these two hangars (296 & 297) and those runways sit on some of what we believe to be the most contaminated soil on the base.