Millions of veterans are expected to have access to VA health care and benefits as a result of the PACT Act, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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• An estimated 3.5 million<\/strong> post-9\/11 veterans who were exposed to burn pts<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Approximately 52,000<\/strong> veterans exposed to Agent Orange wile serving on Guam, American Samoa and Johnston Island<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• An estimated 15,000 <\/strong>U.S. service members who were deployed to a former Soviet airbase in Uzbekistan called Karshi-Khanabad (K2)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Approximately 1600<\/strong> Palomares, Spain, nuclear cleanup veterans<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Approximately 4,000+<\/strong> Eniwetok Atoll nuclear cleanup veterans<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Approximately 500 <\/strong>Thule, Greenland, nuclear cleanup veterans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  Sources: Stronghold Freedom Foundation, national Association of Atomic & Nuclear Veterans, Agent Orange Survivors of Guam<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Millions of veterans are expected to have access to VA health care and benefits as a result of the PACT Act, including: Sources: Stronghold Freedom Foundation, national Association of Atomic & Nuclear Veterans, Agent Orange Survivors of Guam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":838,"featured_media":3567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veteranshelpnet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}