2024 - George Air Force Base, CA

2024-03-27 SecDef Austin – DECLASSIFICATION BY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OF CERTAIN INCIDENTS OF EXPOSURE

August 3, 2024

The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Air Force were aware of the contamination at the former George Air Force Base, CA, for decades before the base was closed on December 15, 1992. The DoD and Air Force failed to remediate the contamination, prevent exposure, or notify the Air Force personnel of their possible exposure to hazardous, toxic, and/or radioactive materials that were improperly stored, disposed of, or released. These acts rise to the level of intentional exposure, triggering the declassification review provision outlined in the DECLASSIFICATION BY DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OF CERTAIN INCIDENTS OF EXPOSURE OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES TO TOXIC SUBSTANCES Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title VII, §737, Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1445. [Read More…]

Did the DoD force the US EPA to remove any reference to the radioactive contamination at George AFB?

July 15, 2024

Why did the US EPA, the agency charged with protecting the environment and public health, remove any reference to the radioactive contamination at George Air Force Base from its website? George AFB’s southeast disposal areas (SEDA) radioactive disposal site is only ¼ mile upstream of the supply wells for George AFB, Adelanto, private homes, and ranches, posed a significant threat to the local [Read More…]

Lisa Lee

June 24, 2024

I was on active duty at George AFB as a Communication/Navigation Sys. Tech from 78-80. I became pregnant in September of 1979. My pregnancy was filled with hospital visits, and I was sent to Edwards AFB on two occasions because they lost the heartbeat. Nobody ever mentioned any toxic exposure issues at George. My daughter was diagnosed with bi phenotypical leukemia and died [Read More…]

Veterans And Their Families Are Being Denied Their Constitutional Right To Due Process

January 29, 2024

The US Government has implemented a complex web of regulations and laws that are designed to shield itself by preventing discovery (the ability to depose witnesses and subpoena records) to conceal the misdeeds of a few federal employees. For this reason, veterans and their families are being denied the constitutional rights that they were willing to lay down their lives to protect. The [Read More…]

Chemical Weapons at the Victorville Army Airfield – George AFB

January 7, 2024

If you worked at George Air Force Base’s bomb dump, trained in the Southeast Disposal Area (SEDA), or rode dirt bikes on the base’s motocross (Mx) track, all of which were located south of Air Base Rd. In that case, you may have been exposed to unsafe levels of Chemical Warfare Agents (CWA) and Chemical Warfare Materials (CWM). These highly hazardous materials were [Read More…]