NATO Military Members May Be Able To File a Lawsuit If They Trained at Camp Lejeune After WW2

America took a lead role in rebuilding European armies after WW2

Thursday, December 22, 2022 - It is tempting to limit the people that drank the deadly contaminated Camp Lejeune water to US Marines serving and living at the sprawling Marine training base in North Carolina. US Marines alone amounted to hundreds of thousands of people, possibly as many as one million, who potentially developed Camp Lejeune cancer from drinking the water. Many other groups, however, had equal or greater tap water exposure and many are not covered by traditional VA health benefits and resources. Some have had out-of-pocket medical expenses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and have lost millions in wages they could have earned had they been healthy enough after their time at Camp Lejeune to pursue their occupation or profession.

According to MilitarySource.mil, "Included on the installation are more than 450 miles of roads, 6,946 buildings, and facilities to support a population of approximately 137,526 marines, sailors, retirees, their families, and civilian employees." In addition to Marines, the following large groups of individuals can be categorized as having spent at least 30-days at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987. One group of soldiers was mentioned in a video I watched this morning, that brought up the idea that tens of thousands of service members from armies in Europe came to Camp Lejeune for training as their country's militaries were being rebuilt by Americans after WWII. Soldiers from Germany, France, England, and all other Ally countries who came to Camp Lejeune for draining and who developed cancer, especially kidney cancer, now qualify to sue the US Federal government for lump-sum monetary compensation. "the NATO forces that trained at Camp Lejeune may have been exposed to the same hazardous conditions that exist at the military base, when the dangerous chemicals were released into the water that affected the American personnel living and working at the base at that time." according to DowntownLALaw.com. The official Camp Lejeune military website tells us "Military forces from around the world come to Camp Lejeune on a regular basis for bilateral and NATO-sponsored exercises. The base and surrounding community is home to an active duty, dependent, retiree and civilian employee population of nearly 150,000 people." Military.com explains "Marines with 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, in conjunction with the United States Army, French Army, British Army and Dutch Marines, conducted joint terminal attack control training at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina."

Individuals must be a current or former member of the U.S. military or a dependent of a member of the military who was stationed at Camp Lejeune to be eligible to file a lawsuits under the specific provisions of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act. That does not preclude NATO servicemembers or their surviving loved ones from filing a lawsuit. For example, if you were in the British army and were stationed at Camp Lejeune, you may not be eligible to file a Camp Lejeune Justice Act lawsuit, but you may have other legal options available to you. Foreign servicemembers should have suffered one of the 15 qualifying illnesses listed in the CLJA, and being able to provide documentation that they were present at Camp Lejeune for at least 30 days from 1953 to 1987.

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