Air Force Missileers Get New Workplace Inspections, Health Tracking Amid Ongoing Cancer Cluster Study

Missileers will soon have workplace exposures and hazards added to their records, and there will be more inspections of the underground bunkers where they work, a major reform as the service continues to investigate growing cancer concerns within the career field.

Missileers, the service members who are stationed 60 feet underground to watch over and potentially fire America's nuclear missiles, were considered for decades to have an administrative job. But, as detailed in a Military.com investigation, those officers have been exposed to widespread carcinogens and toxic dangers in the Cold War-era launch control centers where they live and work for days at a time.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/07/air-force-missileers-get-new-workplace-inspections-health-tracking-amid-ongoing-cancer-cluster-study.html