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INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana National Guard is trying to locate former soldiers who may have been exposed to a highly toxic chemical while serving in Basra, Iraq, in 2003 so that they can receive medical evaluations.
A total of 139 soldiers serving with the 1/152nd Infantry based out of Jasper, Ind., and Tell City, Ind., may have been exposed to sodium dichromate, a known carcinogen, while guarding an Iraqi facility - the Qarmat Ali water treatment plant - for about six months after the Iraq war started, a National Guard official said.See the full content of this document
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Soldiers May Face Toxic Risk
Maj. Gen. Martin Umbarger, adjutant general of the Indiana Nation
al Guard, said the Guard has sought to contact all 139 soldiers in the unit as well as their larger battalion of...See the full content of this document
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