Marines Say Their Health Was Destroyed by Military Base’s Toxic Water

The toxins have been linked to multiple cancers, including kidney, liver, breast, and prostate, and heart issues, Parkinson’s, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Robert Hammond near his home in Santa Ana, Calif., on Dec. 11, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

“I was passing blood and had part of my intestines getting pushed out of me,” Robert Hammond, a retired United States Marine, told The Epoch Times.

The Santa Ana, California, resident, who’s now 62, was stationed for a few months in 1980 at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and learned decades later that he had ingested contaminated water at the base.