Military families in Hawaii say water tainted by jet fuel made them sick

Military families in Hawaii say water tainted by jet fuel made them sick | 60 Minutes

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Thousands 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 16 күн бұрын

The military doesn’t care a crap about its military or their families

@1MrAngel1 16 күн бұрын

Or the land it steals

@CrazyBoomerDude 16 күн бұрын

We are expendable.

@hollydowns2279 15 күн бұрын

Trump spits on our military

@enginerepairguy 15 күн бұрын

Its a political tool. Thats what it is

@NotAJosh 12 күн бұрын

It would be the D.O.D that doesn’t care, and just just trickles down like a waterfall from there

@mizzmia4407 14 күн бұрын

People forget that when you join the military, you become government PROPERTY

@nancydreaney4923 16 күн 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 16 күн бұрын

Everything on that island is still opened they just do it underground now or in closed buildings

@JorgeRamirez-ee6he 15 күн бұрын

It tasted like Quick trip coffee

@bloccs_ 13 күн бұрын

Thiss been goin on for years

@timtim2668 8 күн 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

@sandyjuntunen4088 16 күн 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 14 күн бұрын

Bc the regular ppl don't matter to the oligarchy 🎉😮😢

@RenataKleinRK 13 күн бұрын

Yeah, the military industrial complex does not consider military families as part of their own.

@maryque300 16 күн 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 16 күн 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.

@puravida5683 16 күн 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!

@CrazyBoomerDude 16 күн бұрын

Good luck.

@johnhammink2716 15 күн бұрын

lol, yeah right

@matter3232 15 күн бұрын

They just put a limit on the PACT , I got my paper in .

@LenaChilds-32- 14 күн бұрын

What about the wives and children we have no guarantee of future Healthcare or disability payments ..

@carynmartin6053 14 күн бұрын

Everybody's waking up to the realization that the government doesn't care about you at all, except to take your tax money 🎉😮

@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg 16 күн бұрын

Im sick from the tainted water at Camp Lejune. I was a newborn

@vanessasneed9313 16 күн бұрын

Same! I was born there in 1971

@matter3232 15 күн бұрын

Your still dying for the cause

@luiul1 16 күн бұрын

0:01 "the US gov't takes pride in protecting its own". stopped listening.

@Augfordpdoggie 15 күн бұрын

hahahahahhahhahhaahahhahhhaa me too

@DG-nk7jo 15 күн бұрын

They still got a view.

@RenataKleinRK 13 күн бұрын

View only counts if you watch for 30 seconds.

@mattp4079 16 күн бұрын

The U.S. government also told employees that there was no such thing as Havana Syndrome. 60 Min. broke that story too.

@whysocurious7366 16 күн бұрын

Pretty sure they said “We do not have conclusive evidence that Havana Syndrome exists.” Which is a different claim.

@doloresnorton8566 16 күн бұрын

Our Gov. Lies to us constantly about a myriad of subjects

@matter3232 15 күн бұрын

We're all in the same boat I got my share of jet fuel exposure.

@willengel-vs8ht 13 күн бұрын

our beloved spooks probably tested it on them and then blamed the Russians.

@TAPATIOPLEASE 11 күн 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 .

@Maliceless100 15 күн бұрын

Commending 60 MINUTES for respectful, responsible journalism here.

@VAOdin 14 күн бұрын

"US military takes pride IN APPEARING like it takes cares of its own". There I fixed the opening to the segment.

@soupbums 15 күн 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

@texas70.32 15 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

no accountability, just legal double talk

@carynmartin6053 14 күн бұрын

Proof of pure greed via evil intentions once again

@tattoogirlog 15 күн бұрын

I’m one of the affected families. The damage it’s done to our bodies is irreversible.

@angelinamclaughlin-heil 16 күн бұрын

Unacceptable! There must be accountability

@keengreenhawaii 15 күн бұрын

Or they can leave Hawaii and end the illegal Military Occupation and let Hawaii be Independent Again....

@willengel-vs8ht 13 күн бұрын

most military installations if tests will be qualified as Superfund sites.

@innerspace56 12 күн 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.

@CompoundingTime 16 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

I agree document everything keep all your medical records from your Doctors.

@johnkelsch221 13 күн бұрын

People need to be held accountable.

@FUL0H8 14 күн 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.

@user-vq1cj3my9j 16 күн 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?

@Alex-cb2gf 16 күн бұрын

I trust no one. Not my spouse, church, military, or government. You can call me paronoid, I call myself a realist.

@dthomas9230 16 күн бұрын

If they are American they will lie.

@CrazyBoomerDude 16 күн бұрын

Amen!

@curiousone6129 15 күн бұрын

Same.

@RenataKleinRK 13 күн бұрын

You lump your spouse in with the church, the military and the government? Damn. That is COLD.

@steveb796 16 күн бұрын

Sounds like flint Michigan.

@JanelleGodwin-zl8li 16 күн бұрын

Wait, that's still happening in Flint, Michigan, USA?

@chrissypoo69 14 күн бұрын

@@JanelleGodwin-zl8liyes!! But we send our money overseas.. we could’ve fixed so much in this country.

@Me97202 15 күн бұрын

Someone please ask the secretary of the navy to drink a tall glass of this water… Since he says it’s not contaminated.

@ScottLehman-sp4tr 16 күн 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

@seanbrown8920 16 күн бұрын

No they don't! Take pride in protecting their own.

@JanelleGodwin-zl8li 16 күн бұрын

🙌 Yup 🙌 🙌 Truth 🙌 🙌 Facts 🙌

@CrazyBoomerDude 16 күн бұрын

We are expendable!

@mabsweb 14 күн бұрын

No hotels or medical care was offered to myself or my family we are amongst the civillians who were affected.

@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg 16 күн бұрын

Im sorry for all your nightmares. This should of been prevented

@deanmatters5739 16 күн 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 .

@shadowsilverlight1651 16 күн бұрын

the fact that the govt is ok with Any amount of jet fuel in water should tell you they dont care.

@Western_Decline 16 күн бұрын

the NSA is the only body in the government that listens

@wadestanton 16 күн 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 16 күн бұрын

@@Western_Declinewumao. Nice acct.

@CyrusTheVirus187 16 күн бұрын

Nahhhhh the rocket scientist

@jdotsalter910 15 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

The illegal immigrants coming in will join. The replacements

@milesmoon2932 14 күн 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

@armytruth6860 15 күн бұрын

Hawaiian service members: the drinking water in our homes has jet fuel in it US GOVT : WHAT JET FUEL😂😂

@amanryan6803 14 күн бұрын

What is It with the military and water?

@plm8830 16 күн бұрын

This is 100% American. DEFINED.

@carynmartin6053 14 күн бұрын

You know a video is being transparent and truthful when commenting is allowed 🎉😊

@charletonzimmerman4205 16 күн бұрын

Any sailor, who has served on a CV-Aircraft carrier, knows that "KEROSENE" smell & taste in water.

@matter3232 15 күн бұрын

Yup , leaves ya kinda slick after a shower.

@alvinfrazier4152 7 күн бұрын

Aye, I served aboard the USS Midway in the early 80s. JP-5 was every where, including the drinking water!

@oe1549 9 күн бұрын

I was working in the hotels when they starting placing families in hotels..it was a madhouse..

@lynnjulian8048 16 күн бұрын

Holy wtf

@seth3209 12 күн бұрын

When a plane is HEAVY & has to make an EMERGENCY LANDING… IT HAS TO DUMP enough fuel to PREVENT DESTROYING THE PLANE!

@shocktrooper1783 15 күн 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 14 күн бұрын

Why wouldn’t anyone separate the fuel from the water to sell? Worth money.

@user-pn6ts8hr9t 15 күн бұрын

It is not the government, it is the people who are running the government.

@YuChiGongG 14 күн 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".

@carscoffee5263 11 күн бұрын

Camp Lejeune water contamination was 65 yrs ago and here we go again...

@opsu9233 11 күн бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 to all the families that were affected such a sad sad tragedy.

@coreygalletly723 16 күн бұрын

She’s going to be awfully disappointed

@samspahr63 15 күн бұрын

Same at Camp Lejeune, NC. Recovery wells pumped jet fuel from the ground.

@matter3232 15 күн 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 8 күн бұрын

Same thing happened on a Navy Carrier recently, where the fuel was mixed in with the ship's water supply.

@alexispontes1872 15 күн бұрын

So the water was always contaminated due to this. And those really responsible for this retired. Wow

@nicholascage3699 16 күн бұрын

General charge ?

@carynmartin6053 14 күн бұрын

No different than what they did to the residents of Flint, MI years ago and it's still going on...

@rustinpeace9303 12 күн бұрын

Was stationed at Pearl late 80s. The water was already contaminated then.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 15 күн бұрын

Stay classy, humanity.

@TheQman69 11 күн 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.

@oeao2841 15 күн 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 🇬🇪

@mattp4079 16 күн бұрын

9:40 so the asst Secretary the US Navy has never served in any military capacity. Insert DEI candidate here.

@m.e.p.b. 9 күн бұрын

Sickening.

@donaldharlan3981 16 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

Lol the money chase

@PaulaSanders-tp1wr 16 күн бұрын

East Palestinian Ohio, I guess it’s forgotten. God help us all.

@curiousone6129 15 күн бұрын

They always are.

@MEOWMIX305 14 күн бұрын

Sue the sh@@ outta the NAVY!

@chrissypoo69 14 күн бұрын

They are sovereign. That cannot be sued. It’s so sad that the people that protect the law are above the law.

@mystafox3197 15 күн бұрын

It’s still going on? This was a couple years old, how is it still going

@r.claymccullough890 16 күн 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.

@Sir_Ray_LegStrong_Bongabong 13 күн бұрын

afterall, it's the health of every individual that justifies a performance

@885.0ELopez 9 күн бұрын

Close that place for the safety of humans especially the kids

@CapitalJ25 14 күн бұрын

Superb reporting by Sharon Alfonsi of a national shame.

@user-uz5ko8sv2f 16 күн бұрын

The cover up is always worse than the crime….

@cynthiacruzscott3501 15 күн бұрын

Yes at Ewa in Hawaii

@michellediamsaymendoza 15 күн бұрын

Whoever did that to the water in Redding, California is not American.

@bradtucker2358 13 күн бұрын

All military bases are super fund clean up sites

@kingshango1569 13 күн 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

@madboyreadynow28 11 күн бұрын

Haven't people learned not to drank water from the faucet?

@1MrAngel1 16 күн бұрын

Indigenous families are not affected by poison water and 'wildfires'?

@jdotsalter910 15 күн бұрын

60 minutes should cover the uranium mines in AZ and the legacy of cancer.

@alvinfrazier4152 7 күн 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.

@davidh.k. 16 күн 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!

@conormcqregor4393 16 күн бұрын

The real question is why are these people drinking tap water 😅

@terrys7666 16 күн бұрын

There are a shocking amount of people that do drink tap water. I don't understand it

@conormcqregor4393 15 күн бұрын

@@terrys7666 yeah it’s insane honestly. It’s 2024 the golden rule is DONT EVER DRINK TAP

@jdotsalter910 15 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

Schools have drinking fountains

@devenmacintosh4124 15 күн бұрын

@@jdotsalter910I still doubt that.

@deathlarsen7502 10 күн бұрын

lol 'no danger to the drinking water'

@jjg1501 13 күн бұрын

jokes on them i take 3 shots of pure jet fuel everyday, at least. its like meth only better.

@user-vm5yg9xq7d 16 күн 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. 🏃🏾‍♀️💭✌🏾

@richyr5876 15 күн бұрын

9:38 that's the default. once the heat is on all of a sudden they put there retirement paperwork in.

@samanthab1923 15 күн бұрын

This is going on all over. Willow Grove in PA has been closed but they have traced illness back years

@JaylenPotts-zs2qw 15 күн бұрын

All families should be financially compensated

@Closet-Sports 8 күн 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

@Dingo-gt3zo 8 күн бұрын

Echoes of Camp Lejeune

@fritzv46 15 күн 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.

@nhmooytis7058 12 күн бұрын

I had a friend who grew up near Love Canal, another cover up that killed people.

@user-ny3vw5xx4d 11 күн бұрын

Come 2 west farms mall MACY'S❤

@tundahking 14 күн бұрын

If the military doesn't care about its own what makes you think they care about the normal residents.

@user-rh8fl8qz2z 15 күн бұрын

Which STATE AGENCY approved of the facility location and use? THIS needs to be INVESTIGATED because the military does NOT SEIZE State property for its own use without PRIOR APPROVAL of the State, including BWS APPROVAL.

@nuevision8 15 күн бұрын

Congress allows this. Ask Mazie Hirono & Brian Schatz the two Hawaii Senators.

@JohnDoe-my5ip 15 күн бұрын

Another Camp Lejuene. Oh, the military “takes care” of its service members alright. BOHICA.

@Bong310 12 күн бұрын

As an American who loves is country and his military I. Ashamed of you on this one no that

@slayerized27 11 күн 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!?!?!?

@thebladethestoneandthearro47 13 күн бұрын

then dont live there!!! move!!!

@gotyoutriggered.8644 12 күн бұрын

Did they gain super powers?

@adambruno9608 15 күн 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 15 күн бұрын

Lol just like the navy , we blamed the purple shirts when we took showers in JP5 water

@jamest2401 15 күн бұрын

That’s just brilliant, lady! Her husband says that the tap water smells like an oil change, but she goes ahead and drinks it anyway, then getting headaches and vertigo?

@ernestopompa3425 14 күн 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 😊

@graysoncolvin3180 16 күн 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.

@CrazyBoomerDude 16 күн 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.