Military families in Hawaii say water tainted by jet fuel made them sick | 60 Minutes

Thousands of gallons of jet fuel contaminated the Navy's drinking water system for Pearl Harbor. Families dealing with health issues are suing, alleging they were harmed by negligence at Red Hill.
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[@janblackman6204]

The military doesn’t care a crap about its military or their families

[@1MrAngel1]

Or the land it steals

[@CrazyBoomerDude]

We are expendable.

[@hollydowns2279]

Trump spits on our military

[@enginerepairguy]

Its a political tool. Thats what it is

[@NotAJosh]

It would be the D.O.D that doesn’t care, and just just trickles down like a waterfall from there

[@mizzmia4407]

People forget that when you join the military, you become government PROPERTY

[@nancydreaney4923]

Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Soil was contaminated from a "burn school". Military housing was built on the site. Cancer ended many lives, including, my husband's. The Navy closed the base. What about those who died? Still waiting.

[@CyrusTheVirus187]

Everything on that island is still opened they just do it underground now or in closed buildings

[@JorgeRamirez-ee6he]

It tasted like Quick trip coffee

[@bloccs_]

Thiss been goin on for years

[@timtim2668]

Wait your saying the soil is still contaminated? Because I go there kind-of often to eat at a restaurant on treasure island. They're building new apartments on there

[@maryque300]

You know its amazing to me how the Navy can declare within the first week of the spill that the drinking water was fine when they had done little to no testing to that point and then released a statement that things were fine. That inexcusable. With the spill being so close to the drinking water as it was, all due precautions should have been applied immediately

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

First sentence- they take pride in " protecting their own"? Lol. That's the LAST THING they do! If the water smelled WHY did they keep using it?!

[@carynmartin6053]

Bc the regular ppl don't matter to the oligarchy 🎉😮😢

[@RenataKleinRK]

Yeah, the military industrial complex does not consider military families as part of their own.

[@puravida5683]

Fellow military members. Start collecting medical evidence, medical records and medical test. To file your VA disability compensation claim! If the military caused a disability, you may receive tax free VA disability compensation, and many other benefits!

[@CrazyBoomerDude]

Good luck.

[@johnhammink2716]

lol, yeah right

[@matter3232]

They just put a limit on the PACT , I got my paper in .

[@LenaChilds-32-]

What about the wives and children we have no guarantee of future Healthcare or disability payments ..

[@carynmartin6053]

Everybody's waking up to the realization that the government doesn't care about you at all, except to take your tax money 🎉😮

[@alexroberto6353]

My father passed away from acute Leukemia. Primarily cause is exposure to Benzene. He was in the airforce for 28 years and did two tours in Vietnam.

[@luiul1]

0:01 "the US gov't takes pride in protecting its own". stopped listening.

[@Augfordpdoggie]

hahahahahhahhahhaahahhahhhaa me too

[@DG-nk7jo]

They still got a view.

[@RenataKleinRK]

View only counts if you watch for 30 seconds.

[@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg]

Im sick from the tainted water at Camp Lejune. I was a newborn

[@vanessasneed9313]

Same! I was born there in 1971

[@matter3232]

Your still dying for the cause

[@mattp4079]

The U.S. government also told employees that there was no such thing as Havana Syndrome. 60 Min. broke that story too.

[@whysocurious7366]

Pretty sure they said “We do not have conclusive evidence that Havana Syndrome exists.” Which is a different claim.

[@doloresnorton8566]

Our Gov. Lies to us constantly about a myriad of subjects

[@matter3232]

We're all in the same boat I got my share of jet fuel exposure.

[@willengel-vs8ht]

our beloved spooks probably tested it on them and then blamed the Russians.

[@TAPATIOPLEASE]

​@@whysocurious7366 They say that with everything. They have contacted and have artifacts that belong to ET civilizations yet they say they found no proof .

[@Maliceless100]

Commending 60 MINUTES for respectful, responsible journalism here.

[@VAOdin]

"US military takes pride IN APPEARING like it takes cares of its own". There I fixed the opening to the segment.

[@soupbums]

Former Sugar cane and pineapple fields have a lot of pesticides that's why west Oahu has tainted water too so all you people who want to move to the Hawaiian Islands think twice

[@texas70.32]

And this is how we treat people who will lay down our lives for us…. Whoever rushed to furnish that statement that the water is safe, should be held accountable.

[@hollydowns2279]

no accountability, just legal double talk

[@carynmartin6053]

Proof of pure greed via evil intentions once again

[@user-vq1cj3my9j]

The enemy always poisons the water, someone is assigned the task daily, if the water is of bad quality the alarm is sounded until it's clear to drink, neglect this job and all troops are in danger, willful neglect is traitorus and brings the death sentence, no less, like camp le june nobody checked the water for 50 years? Who is responsible for this?

[@angelinamclaughlin-heil]

Unacceptable! There must be accountability

[@keengreenhawaii]

Or they can leave Hawaii and end the illegal Military Occupation and let Hawaii be Independent Again....

[@willengel-vs8ht]

most military installations if tests will be qualified as Superfund sites.

[@steveb796]

Sounds like flint Michigan.

[@JanelleGodwin-zl8li]

Wait, that's still happening in Flint, Michigan, USA?

[@chrissypoo69]

@@JanelleGodwin-zl8liyes!! But we send our money overseas.. we could’ve fixed so much in this country.

[@tattoogirlog]

I’m one of the affected families. The damage it’s done to our bodies is irreversible.

[@CompoundingTime]

Once you get out they will fight you tooth and nail to not pay you your disability. KEEP YOUR OWN RECORDS, document and keep a injury diary with supporting medical evidence.

[@edwinhargrave679]

I agree document everything keep all your medical records from your Doctors.

[@FUL0H8]

Try being on a carrier underway, and constantly going back and forth through your own fuel/oil/hyd fluid. We drank that crap constantly. Kept us cleared out.

[@johnkelsch221]

People need to be held accountable.

[@ScottLehman-sp4tr]

The Sectary of the Navy and all admiral’s that retired should be held accountable for signing off against the citizens of the Navy on Hawaii and shouldn’t be able to collect there pension coz of the harm they caused that will last forever in the families that are still suffering

[@seanbrown8920]

No they don't! Take pride in protecting their own.

[@JanelleGodwin-zl8li]

🙌 Yup 🙌 🙌 Truth 🙌 🙌 Facts 🙌

[@CrazyBoomerDude]

We are expendable!

[@innerspace56]

Billions of dollars on "education", all these engineers with all kinds of degrees..... and we still don't know how water or gravity works. Mindblowing.

[@Fddhjdthnbcfseyhvg]

Im sorry for all your nightmares. This should of been prevented

[@armytruth6860]

Hawaiian service members: the drinking water in our homes has jet fuel in it US GOVT : WHAT JET FUEL😂😂

[@Alex-cb2gf]

I trust no one. Not my spouse, church, military, or government. You can call me paronoid, I call myself a realist.

[@dthomas9230]

If they are American they will lie.

[@CrazyBoomerDude]

Amen!

[@curiousone6129]

Same.

[@RenataKleinRK]

You lump your spouse in with the church, the military and the government? Damn. That is COLD.

[@Me97202]

Someone please ask the secretary of the navy to drink a tall glass of this water… Since he says it’s not contaminated.

[@deanmatters5739]

This guy talks about fixing the environment and repairing the Aquafers and blah blah blah. You have dug 7 miles of tunnels? Try and repair that .

[@lynnjulian8048]

Holy wtf

[@mabsweb]

No hotels or medical care was offered to myself or my family we are amongst the civillians who were affected.

[@milesmoon2932]

It’s crazy, I used to live there and I would go into the water and sometimes get oil on my, but I never really knew what it was

[@amanryan6803]

What is It with the military and water?

[@shadowsilverlight1651]

the fact that the govt is ok with Any amount of jet fuel in water should tell you they dont care.

[@Western_Decline]

the NSA is the only body in the government that listens

[@wadestanton]

Bridger pipeline in MT broke on a friday. Glendive residents started complaining about the taste of city drinking water that day. The Glendive Police told compainers it was their imagination run wild due to NODAPL protests 200 miles away, infants and the elderly continued to drink the wate till till Monday when Bridger workers notified Glendive to stop drinking water.

[@carlbrutananadilewski8395]

​@@Western_Declinewumao. Nice acct.

[@CyrusTheVirus187]

Nahhhhh the rocket scientist

[@carynmartin6053]

You know a video is being transparent and truthful when commenting is allowed 🎉😊

[@jdotsalter910]

Unbelievable this is how the Navy treats its people and no officers were really held accountable. Why join the military if it's going to treat you and your family like garbage?

[@luvyatubers]

The illegal immigrants coming in will join. The replacements

[@plm8830]

This is 100% American. DEFINED.

[@opsu9233]

🙏🙏🙏 to all the families that were affected such a sad sad tragedy.

[@oe1549]

I was working in the hotels when they starting placing families in hotels..it was a madhouse..

[@user-pn6ts8hr9t]

It is not the government, it is the people who are running the government.

[@shocktrooper1783]

As someone who lived on hickam the based joined with pearl harbor during this event, when you poured the water out of the tap you could see the fuel separating from the water and the navy still refused to acknowledge that it was there, blatant disregard for safety.

[@dangfd551]

Why wouldn’t anyone separate the fuel from the water to sell? Worth money.

[@samspahr63]

Same at Camp Lejeune, NC. Recovery wells pumped jet fuel from the ground.

[@matter3232]

In 1980 West pack they accidentally mixed JP5 in the fresh water void and we took showers in JP5 For about 10 days it left a person kinda slippery after the shower. The long term affect is skin problems for 40 plus years.

[@ElectricIguana]

Same thing happened on a Navy Carrier recently, where the fuel was mixed in with the ship's water supply.

[@YuChiGongG]

My husband came in. He washed his hands in the water that smelled like an oil change on this car. And then, he said......"Gosh".

[@carscoffee5263]

Camp Lejeune water contamination was 65 yrs ago and here we go again...

[@donaldharlan3981]

Those Kaiser real estate frauds are not supposed to be there anyways. Anybody involved in that should show the deed to the property they are on. If not then they don't belong there and therefore they would have no complaint.

[@matter3232]

Lol the money chase

[@alexispontes1872]

So the water was always contaminated due to this. And those really responsible for this retired. Wow

[@coreygalletly723]

She’s going to be awfully disappointed

[@m.e.p.b.]

Sickening.

[@cynthiacruzscott3501]

Yes at Ewa in Hawaii

[@charletonzimmerman4205]

Any sailor, who has served on a CV-Aircraft carrier, knows that "KEROSENE" smell & taste in water.

[@matter3232]

Yup , leaves ya kinda slick after a shower.

[@alvinfrazier4152]

Aye, I served aboard the USS Midway in the early 80s. JP-5 was every where, including the drinking water!

[@carynmartin6053]

No different than what they did to the residents of Flint, MI years ago and it's still going on...

[@nicholascage3699]

General charge ?

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Stay classy, humanity.

[@rustinpeace9303]

Was stationed at Pearl late 80s. The water was already contaminated then.

[@seth3209]

When a plane is HEAVY & has to make an EMERGENCY LANDING… IT HAS TO DUMP enough fuel to PREVENT DESTROYING THE PLANE!

[@oeao2841]

I swear every base I served in the Marine Corps they told us to not drink the water...Camp Lejuene, Camp Talega, St Augustine Army base, Fort Story(Virginia) Army Base, Republic of Georgia 🇬🇪

[@MEOWMIX305]

Sue the sh@@ outta the NAVY!

[@chrissypoo69]

They are sovereign. That cannot be sued. It’s so sad that the people that protect the law are above the law.

[@TheQman69]

Lived on Hickam during this and was one of the many families in hotels. We also know one of the families interviewed in this video very well and that their family member had issues they described in this video well before they moved to Hawaii. I'm all for finding justice for the families who lived through this but don't lie about it like the lawyers aren't going to find out. You are just going to make it tougher for this case to get any real restitution. I know one day I'll see a TV commercial and be entitled to compensation after I've been diagnosed with cancer at the age of 40.

[@CapitalJ25]

Superb reporting by Sharon Alfonsi of a national shame.

[@bradtucker2358]

All military bases are super fund clean up sites

[@PaulaSanders-tp1wr]

East Palestinian Ohio, I guess it’s forgotten. God help us all.

[@curiousone6129]

They always are.

[@mystafox3197]

It’s still going on? This was a couple years old, how is it still going

[@user-ny3vw5xx4d]

Come 2 west farms mall MACY'S❤

[@michellediamsaymendoza]

Whoever did that to the water in Redding, California is not American.

[@user-uz5ko8sv2f]

The cover up is always worse than the crime….

[@885.0ELopez]

Close that place for the safety of humans especially the kids

[@Closet-Sports]

I worked on Molokai building storage tanks from contaminated water we had to build new tanks or they where gonna shut the island down from someone putting a dead deer in the reservoir they flew us in from Texas

[@Sir_Ray_LegStrong_Bongabong]

afterall, it's the health of every individual that justifies a performance

[@alvinfrazier4152]

Interesting, I drank JP-5 tainted water aboard the USS Midway for nearly two years. I wonder if my health has been affected by it.

[@nhmooytis7058]

I had a friend who grew up near Love Canal, another cover up that killed people.

[@thebladethestoneandthearro47]

then dont live there!!! move!!!

[@madboyreadynow28]

Haven't people learned not to drank water from the faucet?

[@user-vm5yg9xq7d]

Hello everyone, is so sad this is just as worse from Flint MI. GM, did that and yet my family members has been really harmed from this exact thing. They covered that up and after everything they only if at all received about $2000.00 of that. 🏃🏾‍♀️💭✌🏾

[@samanthab1923]

This is going on all over. Willow Grove in PA has been closed but they have traced illness back years

[@1MrAngel1]

Indigenous families are not affected by poison water and 'wildfires'?

[@jdotsalter910]

60 minutes should cover the uranium mines in AZ and the legacy of cancer.

[@richyr5876]

9:38 that's the default. once the heat is on all of a sudden they put there retirement paperwork in.

[@mattp4079]

9:40 so the asst Secretary the US Navy has never served in any military capacity. Insert DEI candidate here.

[@ChelsieMorganTonight]

I would be suing

[@CrazyBoomerDude]

Good luck.

[@fritzv46]

Reminds me of the trichloroethylene poisoning of the water system in south Tucson 1970s. Davis Monthan Air Force Base complicit dumping 55 gallon drums of this poison into the desert seeped into the ground water! Military never admits to anything It was a big tragedy.

[@mr.iforgot3062]

This is old news

[@conormcqregor4393]

The real question is why are these people drinking tap water 😅

[@terrys7666]

There are a shocking amount of people that do drink tap water. I don't understand it

[@conormcqregor4393]

@@terrys7666 yeah it’s insane honestly. It’s 2024 the golden rule is DONT EVER DRINK TAP

[@jdotsalter910]

Growing up in California everyone does. Those who paid for water were weirdos. Now I live on a reservation and don't drink it due to old uranium mines around here. But back in civilization I drink tap water all day. No one I know has ever had a problem with regular tap, because in cities it's highly regulated and tested.

[@matter3232]

Schools have drinking fountains

[@devenmacintosh4124]

@@jdotsalter910I still doubt that.

[@user-rh8fl8qz2z]

Which STATE AGENCY approved of the facility location and use? THIS needs to be INVESTIGATED because the military does NOT SEIZE State property for its own use without PRIOR APPROVAL of the State, including BWS APPROVAL.

[@nuevision8]

Congress allows this. Ask Mazie Hirono & Brian Schatz the two Hawaii Senators.

[@Dingo-gt3zo]

Echoes of Camp Lejeune

[@kingshango1569]

Officers retired AS PER? Yet this is the same people y'all place y'all trust into to decide and defend y'all. SMFH

[@LV-dm6vn]

Cant do anything right!

[@davidh.k.]

Why isn't this all over the national news? Why no comment from those in charge; SECNAV, SECDEF, and POTUS? We need more reporting like this, on issues that matter, instead of all the political theatre BS. Thanks 60 Minutes for good reporting, and hope you all follow up on this story in the future!

[@richardyoung871]

I AM from Honolulu and this is news to me but my father explained to me where we get our water from and they pump the water from under the ground and it's very pure and I have seen it sold in California at airports as it is. called artesian and people actually buy it which really surprised me as I live in NUUANU Valley and this is news to me but I live in New York city where we have no problems as it is regulated and I don't drink bottled water unless I am out somewhere and it's only one dollar so it doesn't bother me but I watch what I drink on a daily basis

[@MrReymoclif714]

Try drinking water from the #CapeCod aquifer? Aviation fuel has been seeping into the water for decades!!!

[@deathlarsen7502]

lol 'no danger to the drinking water'

[@skinnywaterboys6108]

Her first statement was a lie!

[@jjg1501]

jokes on them i take 3 shots of pure jet fuel everyday, at least. its like meth only better.

[@Closet-Sports]

I just love how we just show all these things so are enemy’s can see this smh we are dumb I mean seriously

[@mitchellquartero]

The trial is now underway

[@Bong310]

As an American who loves is country and his military I. Ashamed of you on this one no that

[@slayerized27]

Just this? Not all the killing and raping that happened in Vietnam. Or all the innocent people that died in cambodia? The plutonium files didn't move you? Camp Lejeune? I went to fort Leonardwood. It's contaminated with pfos... a chemical the army knew was toxic. None of that moved you? It took this!?!?!?

[@JaylenPotts-zs2qw]

All families should be financially compensated

[@JohnDoe-my5ip]

Another Camp Lejuene. Oh, the military “takes care” of its service members alright. BOHICA.

[@erikcharlat9844]

the people that live outside of hill air force base in utah have toxic plumes all around the base. but they continue to build homes and schools right next to it. merica!

[@joelarson3528]

What the state considers safe wtf