Jet fuel must contain aromatics due to their importance in freeze point and seal swelling ability....aromatics such as benzene, toluene, xylene aka BTX are known to be hideously carcinogenic for humans. This is the reason it has been removed from gasoline and kerosene only JP8, and JETA still have it by design.
Anyone who has ever flown on a 47 or King can attest to the eye watering fumes that the turbines spew directly into the rotorwaah which gets pushed down into the cabin at hover and low and slow ops. You either have smelled it or not, it’s like the NYC subway it’s a singular smell. Same smell as the flight deck of an LPD or LPH in the fleet.
Asbestos was used in electronics. That would certainly explain any lung conditions.
Everything just sucks about this. Everyone knew the fumes no officers did anything about it.
No one will test. Testing after the fact helps little.
Soldiers cannot complain, officers cannot complain. Design engineers cannot correct for non-lethality improvements, though vost overruns plague everything else.
The money these soldiers need now should have been spent while they were gagging, not a decade or two later while trying to breath on a ventillator at 100x the cost and 3,000,000x the misery.
So spend it now on them. They earned it. Immigrants haven’t earned ANYTHING yet.
Pay for these guys first in the budget. Then fund domestic violence studies of alcholic lesbians immediately afterward, of course.
My brother in laws brother was a P3 pilot and P3 instructor in the Navy. Never smoked a day in his life. Got some really weird lung cancer in his mid forties. The results from the Mayo clinic lab said “A cancer of unknown origin”.