K2 Air Base toxic exposure linked to rare cancers as veterans await Pentagon study

In the former Soviet black site that turned into CIA and the American military base in Uzbekistan, the researchers knew early in the danger, not only from the enemy but from the land itself.

The Karshi-Kanabad Air Force Base, known as the K2, was from the US operations platform in Afghanistan after September 11. But for thousands of American forces who served there, the death penalty may have been.

Matthew “Nick” Nichols, an environmental technician for the army and preventive medicine specialist, was part of an early team that evaluated environmental risks in K2.

“This may be the most toxic soup of the chemicals that any member of the service has ever has,” Nichols told Fox News Digital.

Yellowcake from Earth. Jet fuel and flying chemicals from the infiltration of the Soviet missile warehouses, soil and air pollution. Dangerous fumes hanging on the base like the fog of forgotten war.

Nichols and his team warned the leaders, as they made recommendations such as placing pebbles to suppress toxic dust and restrictions on the period when employees can work in high -risk areas. Some precautions were taken, while others were not.

The “YellowCake” visible images on the ground appear at the K2 base. (I got it Fox News Digital/Matthew Nicholls)

“People whom I am a friend of them are actively die of cancer,” said Nichols. “This strange ontology that strikes very young people, and people in the twenties and thirties of the ages, at the beginning of their lives.”

K2 warriors K2 reported a disturbing direction of rare and aggressive cancer, genital diseases, osteoporosis and unjustified sudden deaths.

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“These are not the cancers that young people usually get,” said Nichols. “Their stories are not really able to tell them. This is the tragedy.”

“These people went there immediately after September 11 to avenge the death of those who were killed,” Nichols said. “However, we had a launching platform in Uzbekistan, which was left in this abandoned state by the Soviets.”

Between 2001 and 2005, more than 15,000 American service members passed through K2. Thousands of contractors served more. Many people now find themselves struggling to obtain adequate medical care or a recognition from the Veighters Affairs Department (VA).

The Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs recognizes that they have faced many dangerous exposure, “and the Ministry of Defense conducted a preliminary study to consider the results of the cancer. But this study was based only on a few cases of each type of cancer and should not be considered” final evidence of the presence of service in the K-2 “.

But a spokesman for Representative Mark Green said he did not believe that these studies were sufficient, and that they did not take the full range of pollution in mind and their occupants did not adequately informed their exposure risk base or calculating the full range of diseases that could result from toxic exposure.

“For this reason, the amendment from MP Green (National Defense Licensing law) calls for a new epidemic study completely accurate to cover these blind spots,” the spokesman said. “There are a lot of unknown people to divorce them to a closed case.”

Fox News Digital has arrived at VA to comment.

Green, R-Tenn, and MP Stephen Lynch, D-Mass, introduced a ruling in the 2021 National Defense Licensing Law, which requires the Pentagon to complete a study on K2 within 180 days. After four years, this study is still incomplete.

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

Researchers test radiological activity in K2. (I got it Fox News Digital/Matthew Nicholls)

The researcher explores materials in the fossil hole in K2. (Matthew Nichols/I got it Fox News Digital)

In a message obtained for the first time by the Fox News Digital that came out late on Friday, Green presses the Pentagon to complete the long -length study, a step he says is necessary to ensure the old warriors get the care they deserve.

“Because this study has not yet been completed (as much as the congress is aware of), many of the inventors of the K2 warriors are still waiting for the care that is intense,” he wrote. “This is not fair. There were repeated warnings in the camp of the stronghold of freedom in which the SICs (SIC) is exposed to toxins, yet their health and safety were ignored by leading the Pentagon that day.”

Fox News Digital told it that he would respond to Green separately.

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In 2024, the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs moved to expand access to the disability of the old warriors in K2 and reduce the burden of proof of the old warriors to link their diseases to their service. But the defenders say it was not enough.

“The Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs withdraws its feet,” Green said. “I think it’s really speaking.

Green has also provided new legislation that requires the Ministry of Old Warriors Affairs to formally identify the links between toxic K2 exposure and diseases such as cancer, ensuring that the veterans of affected warriors are qualified to obtain care and benefits.

Toxins in K2S included petrochemicals, volatile organic compounds, exhausted uranium, burning digging, chloro ethylene, and all chemicals associated with long -term health risks.

But the old K2 warriors are not specifically in the agreement of the agreement, which expanded the coverage of the other toxic exposure, such as the orange factor and the burning of the burning.

Green, an old army doctor and warrior, sees disturbing echoes for the past delay.

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“The bureaucrats come and go, and the bureaucrats have their own business schedules,” he said. “I want to make sure that it is written in the stone and that these men do not forget.”