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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector
July 31, 2022
LAWRENCE Brooklynne Mosley says U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall should stop using veterans as political props if he isnt willing to support federal legislation providing health care coverage for the toxins they were exposed to during deployments. Marshall, a Kansas Republican, last week flipped his position on the bill to block it from moving forward in the Senate. The procedural move was widely criticized by veterans and their advocates as a political stunt.
I dont know if its retaliation or a political game, but whatever it is, its lame, Mosley said. And I think that whatever is happening should not be happening on the backs of veterans.
Mosley is a Kansas City, Missouri, native and Lawrence resident who was deployed eight times as a member of the Air Force from 2002 to 2013. She said she flew 192 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, serving as a boom operator on a KC-10 refueling aircraft. She now works for a digital media firm that mostly works with Democrats.
Mosley said she inhaled jet fuel every day during her deployments. She provided medical records to Kansas Reflector that document her exposure to various airborne constituents, windblown dust, industrial pollution and sand. The militarys assessment of her occupational risks references exposure to chemicals, radiation from radar systems, and hazardous waste sites.
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LakeArenal
(29,852 posts)We will really be getting somewhere.
Kansaskid
(17 posts)Listened and read several media accounts of this vote. Not one of them mentioned that Marshall voted against the bill. Infuriating!
KS Toronado
(19,700 posts)MuseRider
(34,401 posts)Just figure out what benefits HIM the most and there he will be with his vote no matter what he might have already said.
He talks a BIG talk but do not get in the way of his BIG truck. What an asswipe.
Rec 1000x!