Pentagon puts budget concerns ahead of Fort McClellan troops’ welfare
The Pentagon doesn’t want to spend the money to alert hundreds of thousands of soldiers who served at a once-contaminated Army base that they may have been exposed to toxins.
“The cost of attempting to identify all these individuals, including the cost of media advertising, would be a significant burden on the Army’s budget and at a time when the Army is furloughing personnel due to a shortage of funds,” Elizabeth King, the Pentagon’s top liaison to Congress, wrote in an internal email to a House staffer in 2013.
Air Force hopes to stick California city with radioactive waste dump
Mayer’s attitude about state and local officials, and his insistence that the Air Force can bulldoze ahead despite the state’s strict environmental laws, highlights an escalating clash between military officials and local communities over the plight of former bases now being converted for civilian use.
“There will be a different governor then, too, and (regulators) all work for the governor,” Steve Mayer, the Air Force’s remediation program manager for McClellan.
Pentagon puts budget concerns ahead of Fort McClellan troops’ welfare
Washington Times
… the money to alert hundreds of thousands of soldiers who served at a once-contaminated Army base that they may have been exposed to toxins.
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Center For Investigative Reporting-Feb 25, 2014
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AllGov-Sep 22, 2013
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Center For Investigative Reporting-Sep 16, 2013
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The Bay Citizen-Nov 9, 2012
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My father served at McClellan AFB in Sacramento during the early 1950’s. At one time he managed the Commisary, but I think he mainly repaired airplanes. Is there any way of finding any record of his service there? His name was Major A.W. Calcote.