This article might be of interest to many here. (Very troubling.)
Toxic 'Black Goo' Base Used by US Had Enriched Uranium. More Veterans Report Cancer
"WASHINGTON -- For the last six weeks, a private Facebook group set up to help veterans who served at a toxic base in Uzbekistan has been flooded with new members, many with hauntingly familiar stories: I served at K2. I have cancer.
"It was overwhelming," said retired Army Chief Warrant Officer Scott Welsch, a special operations military intelligence officer who deployed to K2, or Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan, in October 2001.
McClatchy exclusively reported in December that the Pentagon had known from the beginning that K2, a former Soviet and Uzbek base,
was contaminated with radioactive processed uranium, chemical weapons remnants and underground pools of fuel and solvents that broke through the soil in a "black goo."
Despite the contamination, about 7,000 U.S. forces were deployed there after the 9/11 attacks, from October 2001 to 2005, until Uzbekistan withdrew permission for the United States to use the base..."
https://www.military.com/daily-news/...rt-cancer.html