As the Marines stationed at Camp Lejuene over a 30 year peiod that have all kinds of serious illnesses because the corps and the DoD hid and lied about the toxic water they drank for that period can tell you - DoD lying is not BS - it’s policy.
I lived on base 1959-60 as a dependent but was fortunate in that our water came from uncontaminated wells (to the best of my knowledge - it’s not easy to get solid information without hiring a lawyer)
They knew about it and screwed those Marines 6 ways to Sunday. So, am I at all surprised about what the DoD has done to service members? Hell no. The US government does not give a good damn about members of the military. Cannon fodder, nothing more.
” the corps and the DoD hid and lied about the toxic water they drank for that period can tell you”
Benzene.
Very, very true. Agent Orange, trying to burn away contaminated disposal sites during the Gulf War, heck, they even built a building on the installation I work at right over a former chemical disposal site. Now people in that building regularly come down with cancer of some sort, so yeah, I totally agree.