http://www.atsugi-incinerat...

We are Proud Military Families, we trusted and the Navy put our children in harms way.

I recently posed a question; Who do Navy doctors represent, the Navy or the patient?

First let me briefly tell you that my family was stationed at NAF Atsugi, Japan from 1995-1998 where an incinerator blew toxic smoke onto the base residential area from 1983 thru 2001. The Navy studied and studied and studies the smoke, air, soil, food and dust and determined the exposure was a health risks, but the Navy also continued to station families to Atsugi, open new high-rise apartments within 100 meters of the source and did not educate
residents until the late 1990's that there was a health risk. In 2000 the USDOJ sued the incinerator owners and it was finally dismantled in 2001.




Over three hundred families have contact me since I posted many of the Navy's studies on my website http://www.atsugi-incinerat... approx 63 people have or had cancer, children have died of AML and Brain cancer.




The teams at Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC), formally the Navy Environmental Health Center, (NEHC) are complex and have many duties to fulfill, such as "risk communication", where I am referred to an activist, as they strive for more favorable media attention and fewer congressional inquiries. They also conduct epidemiological studies of our military members, family members and civilian employees when such victims have been exposed to toxic chemicals that exceed safe limits per the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).

The U.S. Department of Occupational Safety & Health Administration has set forth medical assessments and recommendations for people who have been chronically exposed to the levels of DIOXIN, mercury, cadmium, sulfur dioxin, nitrogen dioxide, hydrochloric acid, nickel, arsenic, lead and trichloroethylene all which the residents of NAF Atsugi, Japan have been exposed. However, the NMCPHC refuses to go by these recommendations.

For chronic exposure to the mixture of toxic chemicals we were exposed to, significant recommendations for are to be screened for Thyroid dieses and Kidney and Liver functioning tests but so far, the NMCPHC has completely ignored these recommendations and has not taken preventive action, for former Atsugi residents, as stated in their mission statement.

I have actually come to appreciate how Navy Medicine can take a report and if one reads the report, front to back in full, will end up with a good understanding of the recommendations that the Navy never implemented. One
can comprehend the faults of health test or studies the Navy utilizes and although there are risks to personnel and family members the Navy will pull out only the language they want readers to focus on and put together a summary which explains all the technical medical and environmental test data and will state that there are no signification risk, when the risk factor for cancer is really 7/1000 after chronic exposure. I even have proof that the Navy has falsified soil contamination test at Yokosuka Naval Base.

These are folks who are suppose to be protecting us, not hiding facts in study and study after study, waiting for us to (1) give up or (2) die.

Is this an example of the military doctor taking care of a patient or the Navy protecting the Navy?

Questions/Concerns -
my email - atsugi_incinerator@yahoo.com