Air Force Contaminated Portsmouth But Won't Fund Study?

Air Force Won't Fund Former Pease Air Force Base Health Study
Portsmouth Herald, N.H.
by Jeff Mcmenemy
31 May 2017

Air Force and health officials believe the well was contaminated by the use of firefighting foam at the base.

PORTSMOUTH -- The director of a federal agency studying the PFC exposure at the former Pease Air Force Base believes there should be a national health study done on the chemical's health effects.

Unfortunately for the children and adults who were exposed to the chemicals in contaminated Portsmouth drinking water, the agency doesn't have the money to pay for the study and the Air Force -- which contaminated the well -- says it can't.

Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph Constantino told the crowd gathered at Tuesday night's meeting of the Pease Community Assistance Panel that they had received a request from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to pay for the health studies.

But the Air Force's legal team told them "we can't fund that study," Constantino told the crowd at the CAP meeting, which was hosted by the ATSDR.

Portsmouth resident and CAP member Andrea Amico said she was "terribly disappointed" by the Air Force's decision.
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Navy Helicopter Crashed Into River During Training

Navy helicopter crashes in river
CNN
By Jamie Crawford
Updated 2:08 PM ET, Tue June 14, 2016

(CNN)An MH-60S helicopter crashed in the James River in Virginia during a training mission Tuesday but all crew members were rescued, the Navy said.

The three crew members were taken to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth with non-life threatening injuries, the Navy said in a press release, while adding that the helicopter was based at Norfolk Navy Station Chambers Field.

The Navy announced an investigation to look into Tuesday's incident in Virginia to determine its cause.

The incident follows several recent crashes involving military aircraft during training exercises.
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"Military woman" survives attack in attempted murder-suicide

One dead after attempted murder-suicide in Portsmouth
8:12 p.m. EST, February 29, 2012

According to police, 41-year-old Loring Larry Walker drove over from his apartment, less than a mile away on Gateway Drive, and broke into a home where his ex-girlfriend lived. He shot her in the stomach and the leg before killing himself.

Neighbor Teirra Jackson says that a sequence of gunshots woke her up just before 5:30 Wednesday morning.

When she looked outside of her window towards Canoe Court, police were already pulling up.

“Went downhill from there, emergency vehicles, whole line of cop cars there,” says Jackson.
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Wounded Afghan war veteran beaten near N.H. bar

UPDATE

3 held in beating of wounded Afghanistan vet
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 19, 2011 6:56:12 EDT
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Three Portsmouth residents authorities allege participated in the severe beating of an Army veteran who had been wounded in Afghanistan have been ordered held on bail.

Police say Daniel May, his girlfriend, Jessica King, and Daniel Hayes participated in the beating outside a city bar late Saturday night that landed Steve Bohn of Peabody, Mass., in the hospital with severe internal injuries.
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3 held in beating of wounded Afghanistan vet

Afghan war veteran beaten near N.H. bar
By John M. Guilfoil
Globe Staff / July 19, 2011

A war veteran and Purple Heart recipient was beaten unconscious early Sunday morning outside a Portsmouth, N.H., bar, according to reports.

New England Cable News and other news organizations reported that Steven Bohn, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom, was badly beaten by two men and two women outside the Page Restaurant and Bar.

Portsmouth police declined to identify the victim yesterday, but detailed the alleged assault. Bohn, who appeared on several news programs, was taken to Portsmouth Regional Hospital, in serious condition and suffering from internal injuries. He underwent emergency surgery and is recovering at home this week. He could not be reached for comment.
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Afghan war veteran beaten near N.H. bar