The first U.S. troops to deploy after the 9/11 attacks are suffering from radiation exposure that the government has yet to officially recognize 23 years later.
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“K2 veterans were the tip of the spear. They were the first group deployed in the war on terror, and they are still on a lazy Susan of bureaucratic nonsense, keeping them from getting the benefits and health care that they earned,” Stewart said in an interview this week with The Associated Press.to get the K2 veterans fully covered and he called into a meeting Monday between veterans and the Defense Department’s assistant secretary for health affairs.
K2 veterans have died waiting for the Pentagon and the VA to recognize their radiation-related illness claims, and further studies and reviews just prolong the process, said Matt Erpelding, who leads the K2 veterans group Stronghold Freedom Foundation.
U.S. forces left the base in 2005. Since then, Uzbekistan has taken on a greater role in regional counterterrorism efforts, particularly after the U.S. lost its foothold in Afghanistan after The veterans don't understand why U.S. agencies will not officially acknowledge the radiation exposure, particularly because it's been reported in agency documents.Congress obtained detailed environmental assessments of the base and reams of data from the Pentagon and made it public four years ago in a bipartisan effort to get the K2 veterans’ toxic exposure recognized. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., recently announced new legislation to that end.
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