The Government has not been caring for vets exposed to uranium for a long time. A Titan missle was blown on the pad in December 1975 on Johnston Atoll. Every day the levels of uranium are measured on the island. Persons who served on the island have not been included as of yet in any study or work on depleted uranium. Persons who served on Johnston Atoll need to be included in any studies and compensation.
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Thank you for the correction on Johnston Atoll. There is, however, more to the story. While there in 1977-78 and several times after that for a week at a time, there was no clean-up going on of the plutonium. Those of us on the island before the clean-up began breathed in the plutonium fall out on a daily basis. Your lovely story about the clean-up didn't really clean the island as, by your own refenced articles, The full clean-up didn't begin until the 80's. By that time several hundred soldiers, airmen, coast guard personnel, and civilans had been exposed. How do …
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