I was a Captain in the United States Air Force and B-52G Aircraft Commander stationed at Wurtsmith Air Force Base (AFB) from 1986-1990. Carrie, my wife, was the anchor at [...]

This account of the volatile chemical contamination at Wurtsmith AFB is brief, but it shows how pervasive the volatile chemical contamination problem was then and is today. Based on [...]

Wurtsmith Air Force Base (Wurtsmith) has nearly 60 volatile chemical contamination sites. The volatile chemicals were jet fuel, engine degreaser, gasoline, kerosene, and the like.  For clarity, toxic firefighter [...]

The front line of the Cold War was military bases like Wurtsmith Air Force Base; occupying a seven square mile patch of land adjacent to the quiet beach community [...]

Two distinct groups of people were harmed by the Air Force’s practice of releasing Aqueous Film Forming Foam (Abbreviated AFFF and pronounced ‘a-triple-f’) straight into the Wurtsmith Air Force [...]

1960s: 3M creates AFFF with US Navy 1972: FIRE PIT PLUME begins as firefighters train with the new 3M firefighter foam in the open gravel fire pit from ~1972 [...]

Wurtsmith Air Force Base firefighter foam groundwater contamination began in the early 1970s when Aqueous Film Forming Foam (abbreviated AFFF and pronounced ‘a-triple-eff’) first became available. Formulated by 3M [...]