@yurisierra9030
"It can prevent lawyers from getting richier", ohh they will find a way LOL
@jjrossitee
Veterans getting poisoned during their service is as American as Apple pie.
@L.L
Prevent lawyers from getting richer or maybe stopping their soldiers from dying
@panachevitz
It's not just military bases, firefighters also use foam for fighting car fires. One town that I know about had their high school on top of a hill and the local firefighters would spray foam on the football field for training. Well, 5 out of 6 municipal wells were located downhill from that field and those 5 tested positive for PFAS. They had to abandon those wells and drill new ones to get clean water for the town. Just so you know, something like 50% of the municipal water sources in the US have PFAS contamination in them.
@kaptainkaos1202
The southern end of my county has heavily contaminated ground water with PFAS. When my daughter was pregnant and working there I made sure she knew not to drink faucet water.
@KarstenHarvey
I live in Spokane wa and we have Fairchild AFB nearby and they contaminated all the ground water in quite a large area with these chemicals.
@mw2addictish
If you look up MARADMIN 185/24, it says that one of the reasons the military is getting rid of it is because it never once has actually put out an aircraft fire, and it has cost millions in upkeep and cleaning from accidentally going off instead
@samuelpotters
I feel like with the foam causing all that low visibility that you can accidently walk right off the edge of the carrier
@dahlmasen3084
Same here in Sweden with PFAS in the drinking waters near military bases
@timogeerties3487
"Prevent lawyers from getting richer." Yeah, the servicemen's health is of lesser priority. Who would've thought
@russellmoore8187
The governor of Alaska vetoed a ban on PFAS last year. Because he’s an idiot, but he claimed it was because there weren’t feasible alternatives to wildfire-suppressing foams. Which there are (see above re: idiot)
@alanrobinson4318
The "Agent Orange" replacement. 😂
@geneard639
Jacksonville Florida is heavily impacted from AFFF due to multiple military air bases, and a massive fuel dump fire that took hundreds of barrels of AAAF to extinguish. I was in the Air Navy for 20 years and, yeah, I've used it lots of times. This is where Congress's perfidy comes into play. When I joined we were told if we Served for 20 years we would receive 50% base pay and FREE LIFE TIME MEDICAL AND PHARMACY CARE FOR LIFE.... and in the 1990s they decided to take away the retirement and medical and the pharmacy care. Congress Members who never served a moment, never put their lives on the line simply to survive, only to have to turn around the same day multiple times to do the same thing again. When the DoD started medical trails testing medicines for PTSD it was Congress Members who halted it afraid it would absolve us of 'sin'..... So, I did 20 years in the Air Navy, starting in bootcamp I had to deal with Trauma.... on 9/11? I was one of dozens who were Air Navy who volunteered to go to the top of the Towers and fight the fire from the top down because only we were trained and experienced fighting aircraft fires in confined spaces..... I slicked a SH-60B Seahawk, and issued a list to the base Airfield Fire Department: Pony Pool, Donkey Dick, Portable Pump, 200 feet of hose and nozzle and AAAF, and a Bambi Bucket....and we slicked out the SH-60B and SH-60F Seahawks and had two brand new MH-60S Knight Hawks all four turning..... did you see a single Congress Critter do anything other than run for the safe rooms or run away to safety? While we lined up for a suicide mission? Us fighting the fire from the top down, helos dumping bambi buckets of 2,000 gallons of river water in the pony pool, the pump and donkey dick filling the hose....no OBDs, no SCUBA, no Dress Out Gear, just us in our coveralls and working uniforms..... we never left the deck, because life is about timing and my grandfather who joined the Army just in time to be sent to France in 1916, he joined the Navy in 1919, and the Japanese bombed his retirement party..... Congress Critters ain't worth whatever they get paid, but I recon their owners pay them far more than we do.
@JP_TaVeryMuch
They're a nightmare gift from our grandparents' generation to their grandchildren (urr.., us) ad infinitum. Why do airports cost so much? A big hole in the budget is caused by the expense of installing near-laboratory level mitigation measures. Capturing this wonder product from the past in pools, pipes and numerous other pollution preventions is a legacy and a half.
@tonymonxana992
“To prevent lawyers from getting richer” is crazy talk when the military is still using something harmful like forever chemicals. W lawyers for helping military personnel
@Khrenan
i stopped using those frying pans and they just spray it into the environment. nice
@heidisparklebottom
is amazing how much that chilly wind sound effect added to that clip
@johnp5250
Your skin falling off is not a VA related incident
@whynotjustmyusername
This is somewhat inconsistent. Yes, most AFFF is being phased out, but they still will be using foam and they still will regularly test their systems, resulting in such a "snow storm". Also, at multiple points you showed high expansion foam generators. AFFF foam concentrates don't work for those.
@ronniebauman28