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The Few, The Proud, The Damaged

One Marine's struggle to expose the toxicity of the Camp Lejeune Marine base.

(SALEM, Ore.) - CNN and other media groups published a story yesterday about a Camp Lejeune Marine who survived breast cancer. Jim Fontella of Michigan is one of 22 male breast cancer survivors from Lejeune, says fellow survivor Mike Partain , who was raised in a Marine Corps family.

As we have reported many times in the past, the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina is heavily contaminated with PCE (tetrachloroethylene) and TCE (trichloroethylene) as well as other cancer causing agents.

El Toro Marines Question TCE Usage

EPA reported that Trichloroethylene (TCE) was discontinued at MCAS El Toro in the mid-1970s. Marine veterans dispute this story.

(IRVINE, Calif.) - Reports from the 1980s and 90s indicate usage of TCE, trichloroethylene or methyl chloroform. TCA, a less toxic chemical solvent, was also used at El Toro.

Who’s telling the truth about TCE usage at former MCAS El Toro? The practice of using TCE at former MCAS El Toro was reported to be discontinued by the Environmental Protection Agency in the mid-1970s. Emails from Marine veterans who were stationed at El Toro in the 1980s and 1990s question the veracity of the EPA report.

Male Breast Cancer: a Hard Bullet to Dodge for Marines at Camp Lejeune

"What the hell ever happened to Semper Fidelis?" -" Jerry Ensminger

(CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.) - Next week will be an important milestone for those fighting to bring recognition to the deadly toxic contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.

CNN's Campbell Brown will air a two part story on Camp Lejeune Thursday and Friday night, September 24th and 25th, at 8:00 p.m. EST. The program will focus on the discovery of 22 men who either lived, worked or served aboard Camp Lejeune and now share an unusual and rare commonality, male breast cancer.

Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee Statement on the Opening of the Downey Medical Center

In a new era of transparency, Kaiser should inform their patients of the hazards that may negatively affect their health while visiting as an outpatient or staying overnight as an inpatient seeking medical care.

(LOS ANGELES) - Kaiser Permanente began moving their patients from the seismically challenged Kaiser Bellflower Medical Center to the new Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center yesterday.

The Kaiser Permanente Reform Committee, the leading patient advocacy group that supports and provides patient advocacy for current Kaiser Permanente patients and the surviving families of patients who died at a Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, issued the following statement about the move.

Documentary Article 32 Explores Story of Hamdandia Marines

Following this week's Big Apple showing, Sikorski and the film will head west for the Oceanside International Film Festival that takes place Oct. 15 to 18.

(NEW YORK) - A documentary film chronicling a Camp Pendleton squad convicted in the 2006 kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man debuts in New York this week and will be screened in Oceanside next month.

"Article 32" was produced primarily by Don Sikorski, who began working on the project two years ago, after the seven Marines and a Navy medical corpsman were prosecuted for the killing of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a retired Iraqi policeman and father of 11.

PTSD Training in the Army: A Reprise

The Infantry trains to kill. There is NO alternative. If THAT is not training to be a psychopathic killer I don’t know what is.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I posted this original article Sept. 1, 2009 at salem-news.com and I immediately got a blast for some of my terminology.

My gist was that Combat Infantry Training to some extent CAUSES PTSD.

Smedley Butler was Right: `War is a Racket`

What would Smedley say if he knew about Afghanistan?

(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - Nothing is worse for America than war. Nothing does more to hurt democracy here and around the world and nothing is more dishonorable than justifying war based on lies and excuses that nobody takes seriously.

I would like to blame Reagan for the phony Panama and Grenada wars. I loved Panama; a drug dealing ally cheats his American drug dealing partners and we invade a country? No other spin has stuck on that one.

PTSD Training in the Army

The worst thing is that Combat Vets cannot get realistic help from the Army or VA.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Some may think I’m a bit off kilter with the above title but I believe every Infantry Battle Veteran will understand what I am writing. I think you Gyrenes will agree.

First days in The Army of Brutal Basic Training were a stressful shock to most rookies.

Marines Take Increased Casualties in Afghanistan`s Helmand Province

Five of the eight killed since August 7th happened in Helmand; one soldier died at Camp Phoenix and a Green Beret was killed in the Kunar Province. One soldier died of natural causes in Kuwait.

(SALEM, Ore.) - This is as good of a time as any for Americans to remind themselves that we are at war in Afghanistan and losing plenty of military personnel there.

I just wrapped up one report with 15 people killed in 14 days and this morning we were notified of three more deaths. Each life is extremely important and should never be viewed as a simple statistic.

U.S. Marines and an Afghanistan Ghost Town Called Now Zad

"...they are required to patrol that city/town, and little by little, these boys/young men are being maimed, or taken from us..." -Family of a Marine

(SALEM, Ore.) - Questions are beginning to circulate about the spike in Marine Corps casualties in Afghanistan. Salem-News.com has been reporting about the increasing numbers which represent an entirely different rate than anything the Corps has seen in years.