portable water filtration systems. KBR claimed to VA it wasn't possible because they were using reverse osmosis blah blah blah, and then it turned out not only were they not doing any of that, they were pencil whipping treatments, not testing sources among other things. It's interesting because the closer you get to turkey the more problems with water you have, lead, uranium, cadmium, nickel, chromium and on and on. Some of those there is no kelation for.
The take away is this and this is straight from my attempt at a class action lawsuit: Because I and other plaintiffs were members of the United States Armed Forces, due to contractual indemnification against injury neither I nor my battles would ever get a dime from the company who lied, cheated and then collected the money for provided potable water to soldiers (notably, they drank the kuwait provided bottled water and not what they bottled/provided to us). Color me a little disgruntled. Furthermore, the my case is just one of 2000 cases for much the same reason. And then of all the water purification cases VA has handled, there are almost 10,000 active cases. Water treatment at Parris island from 1982 to 1985, those soldiers particularly females were identified to have both them and their children susceptible to cancers of the breast and ovary at a rate so high the government ended up agreeing to pay the bills for those families and the disability. Congress even had to pass a bill for this, to protect themselves against a lawsuit from the children. Our military has had a series of water issues from the early 2000s onwards when KBR took over all water purification and sewage operations in and out of theater. They know they cant be sued so they don't care. The government doesn't enforce any actual testing results like you would see with wells and municipal entities across the country. You could take in hundreds and hundreds of times the safe amount of treatment chemicals, with next to no awareness and that is what happened. These people admitted it happened and then hid behind that fat juicy government contract that indemnifies them forever.
And while I'm on about it, a 1/3rd of my unit has gotten cancer or ulcers so bad they ended up bleeding out internally, died or is dying from it. It seems like every month is another guy I used to play gears of war or fifa with in the rec tent is dead. It isn't fair that I've had to attend that many funerals, it's disgusting in fact.