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You may be eligible for disability compensation if you were exposed to certain chemical, physical, and environmental hazards during military service that resulted in disease or injury.  

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    ### Asbestos
    Some service occupations, tasks, and workplaces make exposure to asbestos more likely. These include mining, milling, shipyards, insulation work, building demolition, carpentry, and construction. In addition, the manufacturing and installation of products such as flooring, roofing, cement sheet, and pipe products, and the servicing of friction products such as clutch facings and brake linings, make exposure to asbestos more likely. If you served in Iraq or other countries in that region, you could have been exposed to asbestos when older buildings were damaged, releasing the contaminant into the air.
    [Learn more about exposure to asbestos](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-asbestos.asp)

    ### Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune
    Between August 1953 and January 1988, two on-base water-supply systems at Marine Corps Base in Lejeune, North Carolina, were contaminated with the volatile organic compounds trichloroethylene (TCE), a metal degreaser, and perchloroethylene (PCE), a dry cleaning agent. Benzene, vinyl chloride, and other compounds were also found to be contaminating the water-supply systems.
    [Learn more about exposure to Camp Lejeune drinking water](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-camp_leguene_water.asp)

    ### Specific Environmental Hazards
    You may have been exposed to environmental hazards at military installations during military service. These hazards include burn pits, particulate matter, chemical fires, and waste disposal pollution.
    [Learn more about exposure to specific environmental hazards](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-environmental_hazards.asp)

    ### Ionizing Radiation

    [Learn more about diseases related to exposure to ionizing radiation](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-ionizing_radiation.asp)

    ### Mustard Gas

    [Learn more about exposure to mustard gas and lewisite](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-mustard.asp)

    ### Project 112/SHAD
    From 1962 to 1974 approximately 6,000 U.S. Service Members were involved in conducting chemical tests to defend against biological and chemical weapons threats. Participation in these tests, known as Project 112 and Project SHAD, may have resulted in subsequent illnesses among Veterans, and may qualify a survivor of a Veteran who died from exposure to such chemical testing to certain VA benefits.
    [Learn more about Project 112/SHAD](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-project_112_shad.asp)

    ### Radiogenic Risk Activities
    There are certain diseases that may be service connected if they occurred as a result of your participating in a radiation-risk activity. Examples of radiation-risk activities include serving or being a prisoner of war in Japan and participating in nuclear weapons testing.
    [Learn more about post-service radiogenic diseases](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-radiogenic_diseases.asp)

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    [http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-index.asp](http://www.benefits.va.gov/COMPENSATION/claims-postservice-exposures-index.asp)

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            <h5>Agent Orange</h5>
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            The U.S. military sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides on trees and vegetation during the Vietnam War. Several decades later, concerns about the health effects from these chemicals continue.
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          <span>Service activities and jobs that may have health consequences</span>

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          <h4>Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune</h4>
 <span>Chemicals in the camp's water from1953 to 1988 now pose health risks.</span>
         
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            The many diseases associated with serving in Southwest Asia
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            Exposure risks include nuclear testing, having been a POW in Japan, working with x-rays or at a reactor, and more.
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            <span>Field or chamber testing, WWI battlefields, German bombing of Bari, Italy during WWII, and more.</span>  
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          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/project112-SHAD/">
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            Chemical testing exposure --1962 to 1974 and survivor benefits.
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           WWII-era service or imprisonment in Japan, nuclear weapons testing, gaseous diffusion plant assignment,
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          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/specific-environmental-hazards/"><h4>Specific Environmental Hazards</h4>
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            Exposure problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Dijibouti, Camp Lejune, NC, and Atsugi, Japan, from burn pits and particulate matter to chemically contaminated drinking water. 
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You may be eligible for disability compensation if you were exposed to certain chemical, physical, and environmental hazards during military service that resulted in disease or injury.  

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          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/agent-orange/">
            <h5>Agent Orange</h5>
            <span>
            The U.S. military sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides on trees and vegetation during the Vietnam War. Several decades later, concerns about the health effects from these chemicals continue.
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          <h4>Asbestos</h4>
          <span>Service activities and jobs that may have health consequences</span>

          </a>
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        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/contaminated-drinking-water-at-camp-lejeune/">
          <h4>Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune</h4>
 <span>Chemicals in the camp's water from1953 to 1988 now pose health risks.</span>

          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/gulf-war-illness/">
          <h4>Gulf War Illness</h4>
          <span>
            The many diseases associated with serving in Southwest Asia
          </span>
          </a>  
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/ionizing-radiation/">
          <h4>Ionizing Radiation</h4>
          <span>
            Exposure risks include nuclear testing, having been a POW in Japan, working with x-rays or at a reactor, and more.
          </span>
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/mustard-gas/">
            <h4>Mustard Gas</h4>
            <span>Field or chamber testing, WWI battlefields, German bombing of Bari, Italy during WWII, and more.</span>  
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/project112-SHAD/">
          <h4>Project112/SHAD</h4>
          <span>
            Chemical testing exposure --1962 to 1974 and survivor benefits.
          </span>

          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/radiogenic-risk-activities/">
          <h4>Radiogenic Risk Activities</h4>
          <span>
           WWII-era service or imprisonment in Japan, nuclear weapons testing, gaseous diffusion plant assignment,
 and more.
          </span>
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="{{ site.url }}/disability-benefits/conditions/exposures-to-hazardous-materials/specific-environmental-hazards/"><h4>Specific Environmental Hazards</h4>
          <span>
            Exposure problems in Iraq, Afghanistan, Dijibouti, Camp Lejune, NC, and Atsugi, Japan, from burn pits and particulate matter to chemically contaminated drinking water.
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