Military families in Hawaii say water tainted by jet fuel made them sick | 60 Minutes
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Күн бұрынThousands of gallons of jet fuel contaminated the Navy's drinking water system for Pearl Harbor. Families dealing with health issues are suing, alleging they were harmed by negligence at Red Hill.
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@janblackman6204 Ай бұрын
The military doesn’t care a crap about its military or their families
@1MrAngel1 Ай бұрын
Or the land it steals
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
We are expendable.
@hollydowns2279 Ай бұрын
Trump spits on our military
@enginerepairguy Ай бұрын
Its a political tool. Thats what it is
@NotAJosh Ай бұрын
It would be the D.O.D that doesn’t care, and just just trickles down like a waterfall from there
@nancydreaney4923 Ай бұрын
Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Soil was contaminated from a "burn school". Military housing was built on the site. Cancer ended many lives, including, my husband's. The Navy closed the base. What about those who died? Still waiting.
@CyrusTheVirus187 Ай бұрын
Everything on that island is still opened they just do it underground now or in closed buildings
@JorgeRamirez-ee6he Ай бұрын
It tasted like Quick trip coffee
@bloccs_ Ай бұрын
Thiss been goin on for years
@timtim2668 Ай бұрын
Wait your saying the soil is still contaminated? Because I go there kind-of often to eat at a restaurant on treasure island. They're building new apartments on there
@mizzmia4407 Ай бұрын
People forget that when you join the military, you become government PROPERTY
@sandyjuntunen4088 Ай бұрын
First sentence- they take pride in " protecting their own"? Lol. That's the LAST THING they do! If the water smelled WHY did they keep using it?!
@carynmartin6053 Ай бұрын
Bc the regular ppl don't matter to the oligarchy 🎉😮😢
@RenataKleinRK Ай бұрын
Yeah, the military industrial complex does not consider military families as part of their own.
@maryque300 Ай бұрын
You know its amazing to me how the Navy can declare within the first week of the spill that the drinking water was fine when they had done little to no testing to that point and then released a statement that things were fine. That inexcusable. With the spill being so close to the drinking water as it was, all due precautions should have been applied immediately
@alexroberto6353 Ай бұрын
My father passed away from acute Leukemia. Primarily cause is exposure to Benzene. He was in the airforce for 28 years and did two tours in Vietnam.
@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg Ай бұрын
Im sick from the tainted water at Camp Lejune. I was a newborn
@vanessasneed9313 Ай бұрын
Same! I was born there in 1971
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
Your still dying for the cause
@mattp4079 Ай бұрын
The U.S. government also told employees that there was no such thing as Havana Syndrome. 60 Min. broke that story too.
@whysocurious7366 Ай бұрын
Pretty sure they said “We do not have conclusive evidence that Havana Syndrome exists.” Which is a different claim.
@doloresnorton8566 Ай бұрын
Our Gov. Lies to us constantly about a myriad of subjects
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
We're all in the same boat I got my share of jet fuel exposure.
@willengel-vs8ht Ай бұрын
our beloved spooks probably tested it on them and then blamed the Russians.
@TAPATIOPLEASE Ай бұрын
@@whysocurious7366 They say that with everything. They have contacted and have artifacts that belong to ET civilizations yet they say they found no proof .
@puravida5683 Ай бұрын
Fellow military members. Start collecting medical evidence, medical records and medical test. To file your VA disability compensation claim! If the military caused a disability, you may receive tax free VA disability compensation, and many other benefits!
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
Good luck.
@johnhammink2716 Ай бұрын
lol, yeah right
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
They just put a limit on the PACT , I got my paper in .
@LenaChilds-32- Ай бұрын
What about the wives and children we have no guarantee of future Healthcare or disability payments ..
@carynmartin6053 Ай бұрын
Everybody's waking up to the realization that the government doesn't care about you at all, except to take your tax money 🎉😮
@luiul1 Ай бұрын
0:01 "the US gov't takes pride in protecting its own". stopped listening.
@Augfordpdoggie Ай бұрын
hahahahahhahhahhaahahhahhhaa me too
@DG-nk7jo Ай бұрын
They still got a view.
@RenataKleinRK Ай бұрын
View only counts if you watch for 30 seconds.
@Maliceless100 Ай бұрын
Commending 60 MINUTES for respectful, responsible journalism here.
@texas70.32 Ай бұрын
And this is how we treat people who will lay down our lives for us…. Whoever rushed to furnish that statement that the water is safe, should be held accountable.
@hollydowns2279 Ай бұрын
no accountability, just legal double talk
@carynmartin6053 Ай бұрын
Proof of pure greed via evil intentions once again
@soupbums Ай бұрын
Former Sugar cane and pineapple fields have a lot of pesticides that's why west Oahu has tainted water too so all you people who want to move to the Hawaiian Islands think twice
@angelinamclaughlin-heil Ай бұрын
Unacceptable! There must be accountability
@keengreenhawaii Ай бұрын
Or they can leave Hawaii and end the illegal Military Occupation and let Hawaii be Independent Again....
@VAOdin Ай бұрын
"US military takes pride IN APPEARING like it takes cares of its own". There I fixed the opening to the segment.
@CompoundingTime Ай бұрын
Once you get out they will fight you tooth and nail to not pay you your disability. KEEP YOUR OWN RECORDS, document and keep a injury diary with supporting medical evidence.
@edwinhargrave679 Ай бұрын
I agree document everything keep all your medical records from your Doctors.
@tattoogirlog Ай бұрын
I’m one of the affected families. The damage it’s done to our bodies is irreversible.
@user-vq1cj3my9j Ай бұрын
The enemy always poisons the water, someone is assigned the task daily, if the water is of bad quality the alarm is sounded until it's clear to drink, neglect this job and all troops are in danger, willful neglect is traitorus and brings the death sentence, no less, like camp le june nobody checked the water for 50 years? Who is responsible for this?
@johnkelsch221 Ай бұрын
People need to be held accountable.
@steveb796 Ай бұрын
Sounds like flint Michigan.
@JanelleGodwin-zl8li Ай бұрын
Wait, that's still happening in Flint, Michigan, USA?
@chrissypoo69 Ай бұрын
@@JanelleGodwin-zl8liyes!! But we send our money overseas.. we could’ve fixed so much in this country.
@FUL0H8 Ай бұрын
Try being on a carrier underway, and constantly going back and forth through your own fuel/oil/hyd fluid. We drank that crap constantly. Kept us cleared out.
@willengel-vs8ht Ай бұрын
most military installations if tests will be qualified as Superfund sites.
@innerspace56 Ай бұрын
Billions of dollars on "education", all these engineers with all kinds of degrees..... and we still don't know how water or gravity works. Mindblowing.
@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg Ай бұрын
Im sorry for all your nightmares. This should of been prevented
@seanbrown8920 Ай бұрын
No they don't! Take pride in protecting their own.
@JanelleGodwin-zl8li Ай бұрын
🙌 Yup 🙌 🙌 Truth 🙌 🙌 Facts 🙌
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
We are expendable!
@mabsweb Ай бұрын
No hotels or medical care was offered to myself or my family we are amongst the civillians who were affected.
@ScottLehman-sp4tr Ай бұрын
The Sectary of the Navy and all admiral’s that retired should be held accountable for signing off against the citizens of the Navy on Hawaii and shouldn’t be able to collect there pension coz of the harm they caused that will last forever in the families that are still suffering
@milesmoon2932 Ай бұрын
It’s crazy, I used to live there and I would go into the water and sometimes get oil on my, but I never really knew what it was
@Me97202 Ай бұрын
Someone please ask the secretary of the navy to drink a tall glass of this water… Since he says it’s not contaminated.
@oe1549 Ай бұрын
I was working in the hotels when they starting placing families in hotels..it was a madhouse..
@Alex-cb2gf Ай бұрын
I trust no one. Not my spouse, church, military, or government. You can call me paronoid, I call myself a realist.
@dthomas9230 Ай бұрын
If they are American they will lie.
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
Amen!
@curiousone6129 Ай бұрын
Same.
@RenataKleinRK Ай бұрын
You lump your spouse in with the church, the military and the government? Damn. That is COLD.
@jdotsalter910 Ай бұрын
Unbelievable this is how the Navy treats its people and no officers were really held accountable. Why join the military if it's going to treat you and your family like garbage?
@luvyatubers Ай бұрын
The illegal immigrants coming in will join. The replacements
@deanmatters5739 Ай бұрын
This guy talks about fixing the environment and repairing the Aquafers and blah blah blah. You have dug 7 miles of tunnels? Try and repair that .
@carynmartin6053 Ай бұрын
You know a video is being transparent and truthful when commenting is allowed 🎉😊
@shadowsilverlight1651 Ай бұрын
the fact that the govt is ok with Any amount of jet fuel in water should tell you they dont care.
@Western_Decline Ай бұрын
the NSA is the only body in the government that listens
@wadestanton Ай бұрын
Bridger pipeline in MT broke on a friday. Glendive residents started complaining about the taste of city drinking water that day. The Glendive Police told compainers it was their imagination run wild due to NODAPL protests 200 miles away, infants and the elderly continued to drink the wate till till Monday when Bridger workers notified Glendive to stop drinking water.
@carlbrutananadilewski8395 Ай бұрын
@@Western_Declinewumao. Nice acct.
@CyrusTheVirus187 Ай бұрын
Nahhhhh the rocket scientist
@armytruth6860 Ай бұрын
Hawaiian service members: the drinking water in our homes has jet fuel in it US GOVT : WHAT JET FUEL😂😂
@opsu9233 Ай бұрын
🙏🙏🙏 to all the families that were affected such a sad sad tragedy.
@amanryan6803 Ай бұрын
What is It with the military and water?
@bradtucker2358 Ай бұрын
All military bases are super fund clean up sites
@carscoffee5263 Ай бұрын
Camp Lejeune water contamination was 65 yrs ago and here we go again...
@shocktrooper1783 Ай бұрын
As someone who lived on hickam the based joined with pearl harbor during this event, when you poured the water out of the tap you could see the fuel separating from the water and the navy still refused to acknowledge that it was there, blatant disregard for safety.
@dangfd551 Ай бұрын
Why wouldn’t anyone separate the fuel from the water to sell? Worth money.
@coreygalletly723 Ай бұрын
She’s going to be awfully disappointed
@TheQman69 Ай бұрын
Lived on Hickam during this and was one of the many families in hotels. We also know one of the families interviewed in this video very well and that their family member had issues they described in this video well before they moved to Hawaii. I'm all for finding justice for the families who lived through this but don't lie about it like the lawyers aren't going to find out. You are just going to make it tougher for this case to get any real restitution. I know one day I'll see a TV commercial and be entitled to compensation after I've been diagnosed with cancer at the age of 40.
@lynnjulian8048 Ай бұрын
Holy wtf
@seth3209 Ай бұрын
When a plane is HEAVY & has to make an EMERGENCY LANDING… IT HAS TO DUMP enough fuel to PREVENT DESTROYING THE PLANE!
@YuChiGongG Ай бұрын
My husband came in. He washed his hands in the water that smelled like an oil change on this car. And then, he said......"Gosh".
@samspahr63 Ай бұрын
Same at Camp Lejeune, NC. Recovery wells pumped jet fuel from the ground.
@user-pn6ts8hr9t Ай бұрын
It is not the government, it is the people who are running the government.
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
In 1980 West pack they accidentally mixed JP5 in the fresh water void and we took showers in JP5 For about 10 days it left a person kinda slippery after the shower. The long term affect is skin problems for 40 plus years.
@ElectricIguana Ай бұрын
Same thing happened on a Navy Carrier recently, where the fuel was mixed in with the ship's water supply.
@rustinpeace9303 Ай бұрын
Was stationed at Pearl late 80s. The water was already contaminated then.
@carynmartin6053 Ай бұрын
No different than what they did to the residents of Flint, MI years ago and it's still going on...
@alexispontes1872 Ай бұрын
So the water was always contaminated due to this. And those really responsible for this retired. Wow
@m.e.p.b. Ай бұрын
Sickening.
@charletonzimmerman4205 Ай бұрын
Any sailor, who has served on a CV-Aircraft carrier, knows that "KEROSENE" smell & taste in water.
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
Yup , leaves ya kinda slick after a shower.
@alvinfrazier4152 Ай бұрын
Aye, I served aboard the USS Midway in the early 80s. JP-5 was every where, including the drinking water!
@mystafox3197 Ай бұрын
It’s still going on? This was a couple years old, how is it still going
@AllStars2525 Ай бұрын
Superb reporting by Sharon Alfonsi of a national shame.
@Sir_Ray_LegStrong_Bongabong Ай бұрын
afterall, it's the health of every individual that justifies a performance
@nicholascage3699 Ай бұрын
General charge ?
@885.0ELopez Ай бұрын
Close that place for the safety of humans especially the kids
@Novastar.SaberCombat Ай бұрын
Stay classy, humanity.
@cynthiacruzscott3501 Ай бұрын
Yes at Ewa in Hawaii
@samanthab1923 Ай бұрын
This is going on all over. Willow Grove in PA has been closed but they have traced illness back years
@donaldharlan3981 Ай бұрын
Those Kaiser real estate frauds are not supposed to be there anyways. Anybody involved in that should show the deed to the property they are on. If not then they don't belong there and therefore they would have no complaint.
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
Lol the money chase
@michellediamsaymendoza Ай бұрын
Whoever did that to the water in Redding, California is not American.
@MEOWMIX305 Ай бұрын
Sue the sh@@ outta the NAVY!
@chrissypoo69 Ай бұрын
They are sovereign. That cannot be sued. It’s so sad that the people that protect the law are above the law.
@christopherlong7604 3 күн бұрын
Didn’t this happen at Fort Bragg in North Carolina
@user-uz5ko8sv2f Ай бұрын
The cover up is always worse than the crime….
@MikeJones-oc7ch 2 күн бұрын
What about the contaminated water on these aircraft carriers, it is ten times worse than what happened in Hawaii and all you hear about is the Nimitz.I feel bad for the people in Hawaii who's water supply was contaminated with jp5 and they deserve compensation.But my fellow Navy Veterans we have been quiet for too long,we have been dealing with contaminated water for decades.
@JaylenPotts-zs2qw Ай бұрын
All families should be financially compensated
@madboyreadynow28 Ай бұрын
Haven't people learned not to drank water from the faucet?
@1MrAngel1 Ай бұрын
Indigenous families are not affected by poison water and 'wildfires'?
@jdotsalter910 Ай бұрын
60 minutes should cover the uranium mines in AZ and the legacy of cancer.
@oeao2841 Ай бұрын
I swear every base I served in the Marine Corps they told us to not drink the water...Camp Lejuene, Camp Talega, St Augustine Army base, Fort Story(Virginia) Army Base, Republic of Georgia 🇬🇪
@txb870 16 күн бұрын
They forced us to drink the tap at Fort Leonardwood. Anyone know if that place is contaminated?
@user-vm5yg9xq7d Ай бұрын
Hello everyone, is so sad this is just as worse from Flint MI. GM, did that and yet my family members has been really harmed from this exact thing. They covered that up and after everything they only if at all received about $2000.00 of that. 🏃🏾♀️💭✌🏾
@nhmooytis7058 Ай бұрын
I had a friend who grew up near Love Canal, another cover up that killed people.
@PaulaSanders-tp1wr Ай бұрын
East Palestinian Ohio, I guess it’s forgotten. God help us all.
@curiousone6129 Ай бұрын
They always are.
@alvinfrazier4152 Ай бұрын
Interesting, I drank JP-5 tainted water aboard the USS Midway for nearly two years. I wonder if my health has been affected by it.
@richyr5876 Ай бұрын
9:38 that's the default. once the heat is on all of a sudden they put there retirement paperwork in.
@kingshango1569 Ай бұрын
Officers retired AS PER? Yet this is the same people y'all place y'all trust into to decide and defend y'all. SMFH
@fritzv46 Ай бұрын
Reminds me of the trichloroethylene poisoning of the water system in south Tucson 1970s. Davis Monthan Air Force Base complicit dumping 55 gallon drums of this poison into the desert seeped into the ground water! Military never admits to anything It was a big tragedy.
@adambruno9608 Ай бұрын
I was in the army and I was in desert storm when we were lucky to take a shower we used to take showers and the water smelled like jet fuel. We couldn’t figure it out then one day we saw that the Saudi workers were using the same tankers for fuel draining them into the Jets or the tanks and then filling them up with water without properly sanitizing them and come and bring the water to our shower sites, I will probably die of cancer because of this one day this is serious. Hope the Navy takes care of you guys.
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
Lol just like the navy , we blamed the purple shirts when we took showers in JP5 water
@deathlarsen7502 Ай бұрын
lol 'no danger to the drinking water'
@Closet-Sports Ай бұрын
I worked on Molokai building storage tanks from contaminated water we had to build new tanks or they where gonna shut the island down from someone putting a dead deer in the reservoir they flew us in from Texas
@davidh.k. Ай бұрын
Why isn't this all over the national news? Why no comment from those in charge; SECNAV, SECDEF, and POTUS? We need more reporting like this, on issues that matter, instead of all the political theatre BS. Thanks 60 Minutes for good reporting, and hope you all follow up on this story in the future!
@Closet-Sports Ай бұрын
I just love how we just show all these things so are enemy’s can see this smh we are dumb I mean seriously
@mitchellquartero Ай бұрын
The trial is now underway
@user-ny3vw5xx4d Ай бұрын
Come 2 west farms mall MACY'S❤
@gotyoutriggered.8644 Ай бұрын
Did they gain super powers?
@Dingo-gt3zo Ай бұрын
Echoes of Camp Lejeune
@conormcqregor4393 Ай бұрын
The real question is why are these people drinking tap water 😅
@terrys7666 Ай бұрын
There are a shocking amount of people that do drink tap water. I don't understand it
@conormcqregor4393 Ай бұрын
@@terrys7666 yeah it’s insane honestly. It’s 2024 the golden rule is DONT EVER DRINK TAP
@jdotsalter910 Ай бұрын
Growing up in California everyone does. Those who paid for water were weirdos. Now I live on a reservation and don't drink it due to old uranium mines around here. But back in civilization I drink tap water all day. No one I know has ever had a problem with regular tap, because in cities it's highly regulated and tested.
@matter3232 Ай бұрын
Schools have drinking fountains
@devenmacintosh4124 Ай бұрын
@@jdotsalter910I still doubt that.
@r.claymccullough890 Ай бұрын
The son goes from playing a video game to staring at a phone to drinking water tainted by jet fuel? There’s no wonder he complains of headaches.
@ChelsieMorganTonight Ай бұрын
I would be suing
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
Good luck.
@graysoncolvin3180 Ай бұрын
Haven't they learned. The faster you admit you were at fault, notify the public immediately and figure out a solution quickly. That the government will look way better, from a PR standpoint, than sweeping it under the rug and hope no one figures it out.
@StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956 Ай бұрын
Yea, and about twenty years from now, when most of us who are affected are dead and forgotten, there will be a commercial on the tube "If you or a loved one has ever served on or near (insert name of military installations here), you maybe entitled to financial compensation". The only true winners here will be the Attorneys who'll gladly collect their 33% retainer fee while we get a paltry $37.81 in compensation.
@MrReymoclif714 Ай бұрын
Try drinking water from the #CapeCod aquifer? Aviation fuel has been seeping into the water for decades!!!
@mattp4079 Ай бұрын
9:40 so the asst Secretary the US Navy has never served in any military capacity. Insert DEI candidate here.
@jjg1501 Ай бұрын
jokes on them i take 3 shots of pure jet fuel everyday, at least. its like meth only better.
@thebladethestoneandthearro47 Ай бұрын
then dont live there!!! move!!!
@wtfa2910 Ай бұрын
So much fuel down there I want to know how much lava is just beneath it
@lisacantacuzene-sb6ih Ай бұрын
Hummm…..
@antongavutti4376 Ай бұрын
.....life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fools, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor......
@ernestopompa3425 Ай бұрын
Makes sense all other countries ban high fructose corn syrup in foods except America that's why I buy Mexican squirt soda in bottles at least they use real cane sugar 😊
@Bong310 Ай бұрын
As an American who loves is country and his military I. Ashamed of you on this one no that
@slayerized27 Ай бұрын
Just this? Not all the killing and raping that happened in Vietnam. Or all the innocent people that died in cambodia? The plutonium files didn't move you? Camp Lejeune? I went to fort Leonardwood. It's contaminated with pfos... a chemical the army knew was toxic. None of that moved you? It took this!?!?!?
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