US Marines Still Have Not Received The Compensation They Were Promised In The Camp Lejeune Justice Act

Delays are occurring as the Navy JAG asks claimants for more information to support their case

Thursday, March 16, 2023 - In a shocking new report, FoxNews is telling viewers that experts concur that over 500,000 individuals living or working at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina from 1953 to 1987 were sickened by Camp Lejeune water contamination. Estimates have it that more than one million people passed through Camp Lejeune during that time. The Federal government admitted culpability for its negligence in failing to inform people on the base not to drink the tap water they knew was contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOC)s. Marines complained to FoxNews that despite the passage of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act in August 2022, they have not received the lump-sum monetary compensation they were promised. Peter Romano, a US Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune in 1984 told the news about how important water was to Marine's daily physical training routine and how Marines routinely drank from hoses and water fountains. "When you're done with the run, you're not lining up at the vending machine to buy the bottled water because there wasn't bottled water back then the way it is now," he recalled in an interview with Fox News. "So, it was either the hose or the water fountain. That's pretty much how you cooled off after the runs. Used to fill your canteen up, go to the gym. That's the water you use. That's the water you drank," Romano told FoxNews. Romano discovered that he had Testicular Cancer and Hepatitis C in 1988, about a year after retiring from service. Romano was shocked at his testicular cancer diagnosis as he was otherwise extremely healthy and had no history of cancer in his family. "What went through my mind at the time was, 'How did this happen?' I was healthy at the time. Where is this coming from? What didn't run in the family? Nobody ever did. I mean, not even cancer ran in the family. I just attributed it to God's will, to be honest with you," he told FN. Like others, Roman was in the dark for decades before he and others were informed that the base's tap water was unfit for human consumption and the probable cause of his cancer.

Camp Lejeune water cancer lawsuits allege that the Marine Corps and Navy knew in 1982 that the water was contaminated and should be avoided but did not inform those on the base until 1987. During that time hundreds of thousands of US Marines, civilian employees, and others drank, cooked with, bathed, and played in the water which later caused cancer. Dozens of types of cancer are presumed by the Veteran's Administration to be caused by Camp Lejeune water, as is Parkinson's disease, a deadly neurological disorder that causes one to lose motor and cognitive abilities leading to death. Camp Lejeune water is also being blamed for the increases in miscarriages, stillbirths, and birth defects on or around Camp Lejeune as women drank the contaminated water during their pregnancies. This makes it crucial that those affected by the contamination receive the compensation and support they deserve by filing a Camp Lejeune Justice Act claim as soon as possible.

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