Military veterans of us’ ‘toxic soup’ Uzbekistan Base fighting for adequate care 20 years after his shutter

In the old CIA black site and base of the base of the Soviet base and the United States military base in Uzbekistan, researchers soon met the danger that they were pursued not only of the enemy, but also on the ground.

The Karsi-Khanabad Air Base, known as K2, was a launch for US operations in Afghanistan after 11/11. But for thousands of North -Americans who served there, it may have been a death sentence.

Matthew “Nick” Nicholls, an army environmental technician and a preventive medicine specialist, was part of an early team that evaluated the environmental dangers at K2.

“This is probably the most toxic chemical soup that any member of the service has been exposed,” Nicholls told Fox News Digital.

The yellow hunting uranium came from the ground. The reaction fuel and the volatile chemicals of the decaden -decades of Soviet rockets contaminated the soil and air. Hazardous fumes hung on the basis as the fog of the forgotten war.

Nicholls and his team warned the commanders, providing recommendations such as leaving toxic dust and restrictions on the duration of staff that could work in high risk areas. Some precautions were taken, others were not.

“The people I am a friend are actively dying of cancer right now,” Nicholls said. “They are strange ontologies that affect very young people, people at the age of twenty, 30 and 40, at first of their lives.”

K2 veterans have reported a disturbing tendency of rare and aggressive cancers, diseases of the reproductive organs, osteoarthritis and sudden and inexplicable deaths.

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“It’s not the cancers that young people usually get,” said Nicholls. “His stories cannot really be told. This is the tragedy.”

“These people went, just after 11/11, to avenge the death of those who were killed,” said Nicholls. “Still, we had this launch in Uzbekistan that was in a position so abandoned by the Soviets.”

Between 2001 and 2005, more than 15,000 members of the North -American Service went through K2. Thousands more served as contractors. Many are now struggling to get appropriate medical care or recognition from the veteran affairs department (VA).

He acknowledged that these veterans “could have found several dangerous exhibitions” and the Department of Defense did an initial study to look at cancer results. But this study was based only in some cases of each type of cancer and should not be considered as “definitive evidence of an association with the service on K-2,” says VA.

But a spokesman for representative Mark Green said that these studies were not enough, which did not take into account pollution and did not properly report the occupants of their risk of exposure, nor did the whole range of diseases that may result from toxic exposure.

“That is why the modification of the NDAA of the representation of Green (National Defense Authorization Act) demands a new epidemiological study that is completely rigorous to cover these blind points,” said the spokesman. “There are too many unknowns to name it a closed case.”

Fox News Digital has contacted the VA to comment.

Green, R-Tenn. And receive. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. Four years later, this study continues to end.

“This is unfair,” Green told Fox News Digital. “There were repeated warnings that service members were exposed to toxins, and yet their health and security were ignored by the Pentagon leadership that day.”

In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital News that came out at the end of Friday, Green presses the Pentagon to complete the long -term study, a step that argues is essential to ensure that K2 veterans receive the attention they deserve.

“Because this study has not yet been completed (with regard to Congress), many K2 veterans are still waiting to receive great care needed,” he wrote. “This is unfair. There were repeated warnings for the strength freedom of the Camp that the Servicembers (sic) were exposed to toxins, but their health and security were ignored by the Pentagon leadership that day.”

The Pentagon told Fox News Digital that he would respond to Green in private.

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By 2024, it was moved to expand access to disability for K2 veterans and to reduce the burden of the test for veterans to link their diseases with their service. But proponents say it wasn’t enough.

“The one is dragging his feet,” Green said. “I think it really costs. I have to be tried, but my God, the numbers are so convincing. This is a long time.”

Green has also introduced new legislation that requires VA to formally recognize the links between K2 toxic exposure and diseases such as cancer, ensuring that affected veterans are described for care and benefits.

K2 toxins included petrochemicals, volatile organic compounds, exhausted uranium, burns and tetracloroethylene, all chemicals associated with long -term health risks.

But K2 veterans are not specifically appointed to the Pact Act, which extended the coverage of other toxic exhibitions such as the Orange agent and the burns.

Green, a doctor and veteran of the army, sees disturbing past delays.

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“The bureaucrats come and go, and the bureaucrats have their own agendas,” he said. “I want to ensure that it is written in stone and that they are not forgotten.”