James Hogge
WASHINGTON – 80 Members of Congress called for funding to help Veterans with Gulf War Illness. Led by Representatives Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (D-MP), the bipartisan effort in support of a treatment research program targeted at “improved health and lives of Veterans who have Gulf War Illness” comes in the midst of a series of Congressional hearings on military toxic exposures.
In a joint letter, the cosigners urged the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to provide funding needed “to continue this vital and effective program and to support its progress into more advanced, larger-scale clinical trials,” calling it, “a model of how to conduct treatment-oriented research to address complex toxic exposure health outcomes.” The Congressional efforts were supported by 25 organizations, including Veterans and military service organization and toxic exposure advocacy organizations, who this week cosigned their own similar letter to th
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Julie Tomaska wrapped up a 22 year military career with the 148th Fighter Wing. It included two tours in Iraq at Balad Air Base, where she was exposed to toxic burn pits. It was alarming to a lot of us, and we sort of knew something would come of it. We never really fully understood the full ramifications of what it meant, she shared.
For her, it means living with serious and permanent lung damage, diagnosed after a lung biopsy. There s still metals in my lungs, from the deployments in 2005 and 2007. That s the most jarring thing they found, she said. People with my conditions end up on oxygen, which is hard to grapple with.
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