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How Military Bases Became Ground Zero for PFAS Contamination
The U.S. military mandated AFFF use at all its airfields from the 1970s onward. AFFF training and emergency use resulted in decades of PFAS discharge into the soil and groundwater at hundreds of installations. The Department of Defense did not begin systematic PFAS testing of installation water systems until 2016, leaving communities near bases uninformed of contamination for decades. By the time testing was conducted, PFAS plumes had migrated from airfield fire-training areas into surrounding residential neighborhoods and municipal water systems, exposing not only service members but their families and civilian neighbors.
Highest-Priority Contaminated Military Installations by State
Alaska: Eielson AFB (334,200 ppt PFOS — highest in the nation), Fort Richardson, Elmendorf AFB. Arizona: Luke AFB, Davis-Monthan AFB, Fort Huachuca. California: Travis AFB, Edwards AFB, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, NAS Lemoore, Castle AFB (former). Colorado: Peterson SFB, Buckley SFB, Fort Carson, Vance AFB (OK). Florida: NAS Pensacola, Eglin AFB, Tyndall AFB, MacDill AFB. Georgia: Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), Robins AFB, Fort Stewart, Hunter AAF. Hawaii: Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Illinois: Scott AFB, Great Lakes Naval Station. Michigan: Wurtsmith AFB (former), Selfridge ANGB, Fort Custer Training Center. New Hampshire: Pease ANGB (first publicly confirmed military PFAS site, 2014). New Mexico: Cannon AFB, Holloman AFB, Kirtland AFB. New York: Plattsburgh AFB (former), Stewart ANGB. North Carolina: Camp Lejeune, Cherry Point MCAS, Pope Field. Ohio: Wright-Patterson AFB (large plume affecting Dayton-area communities). Oklahoma: Vance AFB (Enid municipal water contamination documented). South Carolina: Charleston AFB, Shaw AFB. Texas: Dyess AFB, Goodfellow AFB, Laughlin AFB. Virginia: Langley AFB, Quantico. Washington: JBLM (Tacoma), Whidbey Island NAS. This list represents the highest-priority sites; the full DoD PFAS installation list includes over 700 installations in all 50 states.
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- AFFF Firefighter PFAS Exposure LawsuitFirefighters — both military and civilian — who worked with AFFF aqueous film-forming foam face the highest documented PFAS body burdens of any occupational group. AFFF contains PFOS and PFOA at concentrations orders of magnitude higher than contaminated drinking water. Firefighters with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, or thyroid disease following AFFF exposure have strong individual claims in MDL 2873.
- PFAS Biosolids Farm Contamination LawsuitPFAS-contaminated biosolids (sewage sludge) spread as agricultural fertilizer have contaminated private wells and farmland across the United States — a largely invisible exposure pathway that is only now reaching litigation. Affected farmers, rural homeowners, and farmworkers in Maine, Iowa, Michigan, and Texas have active claims. This is one of the least-covered and fastest-growing fronts in PFAS litigation.
- GenX Chemicals Chemours Lawsuit — Cape Fear RiverChemours Company — a DuPont spinoff — has discharged GenX chemicals (HFPO-DA) from its Fayetteville Works facility in Bladen County, North Carolina into the Cape Fear River since 2006. Wilmington-area residents who drank Cape Fear River water have been exposed to GenX and other PFAS at concentrations far above EPA health advisory levels. This is among the largest active industrial PFAS contamination zones in the eastern United States, and it is significantly underserved by legal content.
- PFAS Kidney Cancer LawsuitKidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma) is the MDL 2873 Tier 1 bellwether injury — the PFAS-linked condition with the strongest and most consistent epidemiological association. The IARC classified PFOA as a Group 1 known human carcinogen for kidney cancer in 2023. Individuals who developed kidney cancer after sustained PFAS exposure through drinking water have among the strongest claims in PFAS litigation.
- Military Base PFAS Contamination LawsuitMore than 700 U.S. military installations have confirmed PFAS contamination from decades of AFFF firefighting foam use. Veterans, active-duty service members, military families, and civilian base employees who lived or worked on contaminated installations and developed kidney cancer, testicular cancer, or thyroid disease may have substantial legal claims. The DoD has confirmed contamination at bases in all 50 states.
- PFAS Settlement Amounts Per PersonThe $12.5 billion 3M settlement and $1.185 billion DuPont/Chemours/Corteva settlement compensate water utilities — not individuals. Individual PFAS personal injury settlement amounts depend on injury category, exposure documentation, and MDL 2873 bellwether trial outcomes. Kidney and testicular cancer claims are expected to produce the highest individual recoveries, estimated at $300,000 to $600,000 or more.
- PFAS Lawsuit Statute of Limitations by StateThe statute of limitations for PFAS personal injury claims is typically 2 to 3 years from diagnosis or from when you discovered the PFAS-illness connection. Because military and industrial PFAS contamination was not publicly disclosed until 2016–2020 in most communities, courts have been receptive to delayed discovery arguments. Act now — deadlines are real, and missing them permanently bars your claim.
- PFAS Testicular Cancer LawsuitTesticular cancer is an MDL 2873 Tier 1 injury category with one of the strongest epidemiological links to PFAS — particularly PFOS exposure. The cancer predominantly affects younger men (age 15–35), meaning veterans and firefighters who developed testicular cancer after PFAS exposure at military installations often carry decades of lost earnings and quality-of-life damages. Claims in MDL 2873 are active and advancing toward bellwether trials in 2026.
- PFAS Thyroid Disease and Thyroid Cancer LawsuitPFAS disrupt thyroid hormone signaling by mimicking and competing with thyroid hormones at receptor and transport protein binding sites. Women are disproportionately affected. Diagnosed thyroid disease requiring medication (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Hashimoto's thyroiditis) and thyroid cancer are recognized injury categories in MDL 2873. A 2018 Mount Sinai study found significantly elevated thyroid cancer risk with higher serum PFAS concentrations.
- PFAS Ulcerative Colitis LawsuitUlcerative colitis — a chronic inflammatory bowel disease — was one of the six conditions designated by the C8 Science Panel as having a probable link to PFOA exposure in the Mid-Ohio Valley study. This is a non-cancer qualifying condition recognized in MDL 2873 personal injury proceedings. Claimants with PFAS exposure and a confirmed ulcerative colitis diagnosis may have viable claims even without a cancer diagnosis.
- PFAS Drinking Water Contamination LawsuitPFAS-contaminated municipal water systems and private wells have exposed millions of Americans to dangerous concentrations of forever chemicals. Residents who drank contaminated tap water for years and developed kidney cancer, testicular cancer, or thyroid disease have individual claims in MDL 2873. You do not need to have lived near a military base — industrial and agricultural PFAS sources have contaminated water supplies across the country.
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