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- The US military began privatizing housing more than a decade ago because it was supposed to protect service members’ families.
- Instead, some of their children are being poisoned by lead, and inspections are discouraged in part because lead abatement can be costly.
- From 2011 to 2016, Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas – which processes blood tests from many bases nationwide – registered more than 1,050 small children who tested above the CDC’s elevated threshold, the center’s records show.
- The thousand-plus blood results, obtained from Army bases through Freedom of Information Act requests, provide only a glimpse of the problem.
Army Colonel J. Cale Brown put his life on the line in two tours of duty in Afghanistan, earning a pair of Bronze Stars for his service. In between those deployments, Brown received orders to report to Fort Benning, the sprawling Georgia base that proudly describes itself as the century-old home of the U.S. infantry.
He was pleased. His wife, Darlena, was pregnant with their second child, and the Browns owned a home in the area. Their 10-month-old son, John Cale Jr, was a precocious baby, babbling a dozen words and exploring solid foods.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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