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  1. Update: Fort McClellan veterans soldier on

    VA acknowledges veterans’ concerns, but continues to deny claims of toxic exposure Thousands of veterans who trained at Fort McClellan say contamination at the military base caused them to become seriously ill. For more than a decade they’ve demanded the ...

    27 Mar 2015 - Emily Green

  2. Toxic soldiers: A Portland woman among thousands of Army vets who say they were poisoned by chemicals at Ft. McClellan

    It was the 1970s in Southern California, and a teenage Laynie Roland could be seen most days surfing and boogie boarding along Newport Beach, about 40 miles west of her home in Ontario. With her long, feathered, bleached-blonde hair and wave-riding ways, ...

    6 Dec 2014 - Emily Green

  3. 'They considered me a traitor and a spy’

    Helping U.S. forces made many Iraqi and Afghan interpreters targets in their own countries, and the visa program intended to help them has fallen under heavy fire Fifty-year-old Omar Al-Kubaisi says he wanted to give his people a voice and help prevent bl ...

    1 Jan 2014 - Nathan Gilles

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