Operation Sandstone Kwajalein Veterans Radiation Exposure

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781934449097

Brand Legacy Pub

As the one and only Air Force airman on duty who read and recorded the extremely high radiation levels that occurred after the Yoke operation on Kwajalein, Thomas Caffarello took it very personally when the Veterans Administration, in one of its rating decisions, stated the following: Your claim was previously denied because there is no basis in the available evidence of record to establish service connection for the disabilities at issue. These conditions did not happen during military service, nor were aggravated or caused by service. Exposure to ionizing radiation has been confirmed by the Department of Defense, with an estimated dose to the eye lens of 0.2 Rem of gamma radiation. Due to your distance from ground zero, you had virtually no potential for exposure to neutron radiation. Therefore, the evidence you submit must relate to this fact. Common sense and justice are not recognized by Veterans Administration bureaucrats. Otherwise, they would understand that Caffarello s information would help the 1,000 to 2,000 veterans also denied their claims by the erroneous information the Veterans Administration has been using to judge claims. His hope is that this book may bring justice to other disabled veterans battling a mis-informed bureaucracy.