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Archive Home > 2009 > February > 12 > 433 Oregon Guardsmen among those warned of toxic exposure from Iraq

433 Oregon Guardsmen among those warned of toxic exposure from Iraq

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
February 12, 2009

PORTLAND — The Oregon National Guard has written to 433 of its soldiers to say they may have been exposed to a toxic, carcinogenic chemical at an Iraqi water pumping plant shortly after the war began.

Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Braibish said three companies of the 162nd Infantry....

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