If you or a loved one suffered injury, including mesothelioma or cancer, after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Army, you may be entitled to recover compensation from an Army asbestos exposure lawsuit case or settlement claim.
A team of products liability injury lawyers and class action attorneys is investigating military asbestos lawsuit cases and settlement claims of Army veterans who suffered injury, including mesothelioma and cancer, after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Army.
Thousands of U.S. Army veterans may have been exposed to asbestos while serving in the Army, many of whom have suffered asbestos injury.
Army Asbestos Exposure Lawsuit Cases: Army Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer Injury Claims
Army asbestos exposure lawsuit claims potentially being investigated include claims of Army veterans who suffered asbestos-related injury after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Army, including:
- Mesothelioma
- Lung cancer
- Other asbestos cancers
- Asbestosis
- Other asbestos-related disease
Army Asbestos Exposure Injury Claims
From 1930 to 1980, the U.S. Army used various asbestos-containing products on Army bases, buildings, vehicles, and equipment including boilers, brakes and brake pads, cements, ceiling tiles, clutch plates, construction materials, electrical wiring, engine heat shields, flooring tiles, gaskets, insulation, pipes, roofs, siding and valves, among others.
Army personnel who installed, maintained, repaired or otherwise worked with or near asbestos containing equipment, products and materials may have been exposed to asbestos during their service in the Army, including those in the following occupations, among others:
- U.S. Corps of Army Engineers
- Aircraft mechanics
- Artillerymen
- Army automotive workers
- Army boilermakers
- Army carpenters
- Army construction workers
- Army demolition workers
- Army furnace tenders
- Army renovation specialists
- Army drywallers
- Army insulators
- Army mine workers
- Army milling workers
- Army painters
- Army electricians
- Army plumbers
- Army pipefitters
- Army firefighters
- Army vehicle mechanics
- Army welders
- Equipment mechanics
- Infantrymen
- Millwrights
- Motor pool workers
- Radiomen
- Structural mechanics
- Tankers
- Other Army personnel
- Other types of Army asbestos exposure
Soldiers who served in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other countries may also have been exposed to asbestos in older buildings.
Asbestos Exposure In The Army
Army veterans may also have been exposed to asbestos in:
- Army barracks
- Army boiler rooms
- Army buildings
- Army mess halls
- Army medical facilities
- Army vehicles
- Army tanks
- Army jeeps
- Army shops
- Army trucks
- Army aircraft (B-17 bomber, P-51 Mustang fighter, etc.)
- Armored vehicles
- Army clothing
- Army equipment (parachute flares, rockets, field dressings, etc.)
- Army construction sites
- Other Army asbestos exposure
Army Base Asbestos Exposure
Many Army bases, barracks and forts were built using materials that may have contained asbestos, including:
- Aberdeen Proving Ground
- Anniston Army Depot Base
- Biggs Army Airfield
- Blue Grass Army Depot
- Camp Bowie
- Camp Bullis
- Camp Dodge
- Camp Frank D. Merrill
- Camp Haan
- Camp Joseph Robinson
- Camp Mabry
- Camp Mackall
- Camp Murray
- Camp Navajo
- Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA)
- Camp Price Support Center
- Camp Roberts
- Camp San Luis Obispo
- Camp Stanley Storage Activity
- Camp Swift
- Carlisle Barracks
- Corpus Christi Army Depot
- Detroit Arsenal
- Fort AP Hill
- Fort Belvoir
- Fort Benning
- Fort Bliss
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Campbell
- Fort Carson
- Fort Chaffee
- Fort Derussy
- Fort Des Moines
- Fort Detrick
- Fort Devens
- Fort Dix
- Fort Drum
- Fort Eustis
- Fort Gillem
- Fort Gordon
- Fort Greely
- Fort Hamilton
- Fort Hood
- Fort Huachuca
- Fort Hunter Liggett
- Fort Irwin
- Fort Jackson
- Fort Knox
- Fort Leavenworth
- Fort Lee
- Fort Leonard Wood
- Fort Lewis
- Fort McClellan Army Base
- Fort McCoy
- Fort McPherson
- Fort Meade
- Fort Monmouth
- Fort Monroe
- Fort Myer
- Fort Pickett
- Fort Richardson Army Base
- Fort Riley
- Fort Rucker
- Fort Sam Houston
- Fort Shafter
- Fort Sill
- Fort Stewart
- Fort Wainwright
- Hawthorne Army Depot
- Holston Army Plant
- Hunter Army Airfield
- Iowa Army Plant
- International Army bases
- Letterkenny Army Depot
- Los Alamos Demolition
- Martindale Army Airfield
- McAlester Army Ammunition
- Milan Army Ammunition
- New Cumberland Army Depot
- Picatinny Arsenal
- Pine Bluff Arsenal
- Pohakuloa Training Area
- Presidio of Monterey
- Pueblo Chemical Depot
- Radford Army Ammunition
- Red River Army Depot
- Redstone Arsenal Army Base
- Rock Island Arsenal
- Schofield Barracks
- Sierra Army Depot
- Simmons Army Airfield
- Soldier Systems Center
- Tobyhanna Army Depot
- Tripler Medical Center
- U.S. Disciplinary Barracks
- U.S. Military Academy
- Umatilla Chemical Depot
- Warrenton Training Center
- Watervliet Arsenal
- Wheeler Army Airfield Base
- White Sands Missile Range
- Yakima Training Center
- Yuma Proving Ground
- U.S. Army bases in Germany
- U.S. Army bases in Italy
- U.S. Army bases in Japan
- U.S. Army bases in Kosovo
- U.S. Army bases in South Korea
- U.S. Army bases in Kuwait
- Other U.S. Army bases
If you or a loved one were injured after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Army, you may be entitled to compensation from an Army asbestos exposure lawsuit case or settlement claim. Contact an injury lawyer to request a free case review
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